COMMUNISTS NOT EVICTED
PREDICAMENT OF LESSORS
OFFENCE UNDER CRIMES ACT
POSSESSION CLAIM FAILS
FIRST CASE IN CAMPAIGN
By Telegraph—Pre.# Area.—Copyright.
Sydney, Sept. 16.
When the Permanent Trustee Company tried to obtain an order for the eviction of the Communist Party of Australia from the party’s headquarters, Sydney, it failed. This ia the first case decided in the course of the Federal Government’s campaign against Communists.
The Permanent Trustee Company, as agent for the owners of the building known as Communist Hall, -svas advised by the authorities that if it permitted the Communist Party to occupy the hall it was committing an offence under the Crimes Act.
Although the company advised the Communist Party that it was illegal to hold meetings in x the hall, the usual Sunday meetings have been held and the party continues to occupy, the premises.
An application by the company for posession wm dismissed, by Mr. MacDougall, Stipendiary Magistrate,' who upheld the submission of the respondents that the applicant 'had not proved the creation or determination of tenancy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1932, Page 7
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