BREACH OF CENSORSHIP
INSTRUCTED PRINTER TO PRINT LEAFLETS (Press Assn.) Auckland, July 18. A summons charge of publishing information which would or might be useful to enemy States was brought in the Police Court against Leonard Walter Scott Reid, fitter, employed in the Otahuhu Railway Workshops. He pleaded not guilty. The police said Reid approached a printer with a request to print 1000 leaflets. The leaflets were not printed. The police contended that had the leaflets been printed somemight have fallen into the hands of persons in neutral ships and have been carried abroad.
Defending counsel submitted that there was no legal offence and that the copy for the leaflets did not come under the Censorship and Publicity Emergency Regulations. Defendant composed the copy for the leaflets from a well-known book and had no idea it might be valuable to the enemy.
The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, said he was satisfied that what was done was done innocently. He fined Reid £2. Counsel’s application to increase the tine to £5 Is to permit oi an appeal was refused.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 168, 19 July 1941, Page 6
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