CHRISTIAN PACIFISTS
SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 8. After a retirement of 20 minutes the jury, to-day found Arthur Herbert Carman, a bookseller, aged 38, guilty of attempting to publish a subversive document but not guilty of attempting to conduct a meeting prohibited under the Public Safety Emergency Regulations. The prisoner posted eight copies of a leaflet entitled “Defend Peace and Freedom at Home,” written by the secretary of the Christian Pacifist Society, to residents of Johnsonville. John Henderson Woodley, a schoolteacher, aged 21, and David William Silvester, a clerk, aged 28, were found guilty of attempting to conduct a prohibited meeting. In remanding them for sentence till to-morrow morning, the Chief Justice intimated that there was a possibility of the sentences not being pronounced.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 2
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125CHRISTIAN PACIFISTS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 2
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