SEDITION APPEAL CASES
DECISION RESERVED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Arguing for the Crown in the sedition cases the Solicitor-General said if the Military Service Act, 1910, was ultra vires there was sufficient seditious tendency in the utterances to justify the convictions. Dealing with questions of the validity of the Military Service Act lie said the Crown relied on section 177 of the Imperial Army Act, 1881, which gave power to colonial legislatures to pass Acts to send troops abroad, but apart from that the Constitution Act gave ample power. So far as the validity of the regulations was concerned they had riot made any act done abroad an offence, and were, therefore, within the competency of the legislation. Mr Hutchison briefly replied, and the Court reserved its decision and adjourned till 10.30 to-morrow.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13447, 28 March 1917, Page 5
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