PRISON SENTENCES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21959, 10 May 1941, Page 9

PRISON SENTENCES

THREE CHRISTIAN PACIFISTS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 9. Sentence was passed by the Chief Justice to-day on three of eight members of the Christian Pacifist Society found guilty at the current session of the Supreme Court for breaches of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations. Five were remanded for a week so that it might be decided whether they had not been sentenced in the Magistrate’s Court for the same offence as that for which they had been convicted in the supreme Court. Arthur Herbert Carman, a bookseller, aged 38, was sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months for publishing a subversive statement. Archibald Charles Barrington, secretary of the Society, aged 14, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment each on charges of publishing a subversive document and? attempting to conduct a meeting which had been prohibited bv the police, the terms to be concurrent. John Henderson Woodley, a teacher, aged 21, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for attempting to conduct a prohibited meeting. Those remanded were Ormond Edward Burton, minister of religion, John Whiteley Boat, a carpenter, aged 28; David William Silvester, a clerk, aged 28; John Robert Hammerton, a plasterer, aged 28, and James Doherty, a commercial artist, aged 32.