DISLOYAL UTTERANCE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7916, 9 August 1917, Page 3

DISLOYAL UTTERANCE.

SALUTARY SENTENCE. (Own Correspondent). NAPIER, This day. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., James Toohill was charged with uttering disloyal sentiments in the Working Men’s Club. The evidence was conclusive. His Worship, in delivering his decision, said that the words concerned were as bad as they could be. Accused had ben in New Zealand for eight years and had been as well treated as anyone else. Whatever his opinions were they could not have been worse. A man was entitled to his own private opinions, but as in this case should keep them private. Speaking out such opinions could in many places cause a riot, and even in this instance there had been some disturbance caused. It was not a case for a fine. Taking into consideration that the man was under the influence of liquor, he had decided that he be sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. Mr Dolan asked that security for appeal be fixed. His Worship made the amount £lO.