SUBVERSIVE REPORT PUBLISHED
TWO MEN SENT TO PRISON (United Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, June 24. Harold William Klein, a law clerk, of Palmerston North, and Leo Sim, a farmer of Himatangi, were each sentenced by Mr H. P. Lowry, S.M., to one year’s imprisonment for publishing a subversive report in a pamphlet entitled The Spark. . On two charges of having in his possession a typewriter and other materials with a view to making a subversive statement and on five other charges of publishing subversive reports, Sim was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within two years. Klein was also ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years on one charge of having in his possession a typewriter and other materials with a view to making a subversive statement and on three others of publishing subversive reports.
The Magistrate quoted from the pamphlet saying that if the statements in 't were not revolutionary he did not know what they were. He commented that evidently Sim was “the brains of the outfit."
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Southland Times, Issue 24161, 25 June 1940, Page 3
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