FARM LABOURER SENT TO PRISON
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 19. Harold Ray Bray, aged 22, a farm labourer, charged with obstructing the police in the execution of their duty, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr J. L. Stout.
Police Superintendent Lopdell stated that Bray belonged to the Christian Pacifist Society. “It is significant that this man, and I think the majority of others who have been charged, are single men of military age, some of whom have been caught in the ballot and have failed in appeals against overseas service,” he said. “They have come from as far away as Nelson and Waikato. The accused came from Waikato to take his turn. In the speaking here it is noticeable that some of them are not practised public speakers and it is suggested that they have come here because of their failure to get out of military service and the probability of finding a safe place by being charged and sentenced.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24439, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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