SENTENCE ON WOMAN
CHRISTCHURCH DEMONSTRATION.
MINISTER NOT INTERFERING.
By ’J’elegraph—-Press Association.
Wellington, April 9.
A request that the Minister of Justice should review the sentence imposed by the magistrate on Mrs. J. Grant at Christchurch was made by a deputation representative of the New Zealand Working Women’s Movement. Mrs,' Grant was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months and was ordered to refrain from taking part In open-air demonstrations on a charge of trespassing at the Christchurch relief depot and refusing to leave. Miss E. Farelly maintained in support of the request that the organisation was being penalised through the sentence. She contended that as a result of Mrs. Grant’s action the conditions of the unemployed had been improved.
In reply the Minister said that Mrs. Grant could have been fined or imprisoned, and he did not think she was harshly dealt with. It was still open to her to address indoor meetings, and he felt that the decision of the magistrate should not be interfered with.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1935, Page 6
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