FOUND GUILTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 106, 8 May 1941, Page 9

FOUND GUILTY

PACIFIST SOCIETY SECRETARY PUBLISHED A SUBVERSIVE DOCUMENT (Press Assn.) Wellington May 7. A verdict of guilty on charges of publishing a subversive document and attempting to conduct a meeting prohibited under the Public Safely Emergency Regulations by Supt. C. W. Lopdell, was returned by the jury in the Supreme Court against Archibald Charles Barrington, aged 35, secretary of the Christian Pacifist Society. Toward the close of his long address to the jury, Barrington announced that the next speaker for the society would be a woman. In summing up the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, said the Court was not concerned with what, might be said or published in other parts of the world, whether in Britain or elsewhere. New Zealanders were bound by their own law. At a time when the country and Empire were engaged in what was a struggle for existence there must be unity. There must be harmony and no public disturbances which would inevitably divert the minds of the people from the main consideration.

Barrington was remanded until Friday for sentence.