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SUBVERSIVE STATEMENTS RECOMMENDATION OF A COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE [ P*r Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. The Public Petitions M to Z Committee, reporting in the House today on petitions for the release of Douglas Murdoch Martin, who was sentenced in the Supreme Court at Wellington in July last to 12 months’ imprisonment for making subversive statements, recommended that his sentence should be referred to the Government for consideration. The committee added that in its opinion the prisoner should be released when he had served half his term, subject to his conduct in prison in the meantime being satisfactory, and to his giving an undertaking to refrain from subversive actions during the remaining period of his sentence. The report was laid on the table.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 285, 4 December 1940, Page 6
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