EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume LXV, Issue 44, 30 October 1940, Page 854

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Regulations controlling the Admission of Persons to Hawera Racecourse while it is used or occupied by the Waverley Racing Club for Race Meetings. (See New Zealand Gazette, 1940, page 2694.)

Notice declaring “Jehovah’s Witnesses” and other Organizations to be Subversive.

In the matter of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 1.

Whereas I, Henry Greathead Rex Mason, His Majesty’s Attorney-General, am satisfied that the methods and activities of a certain organization or organizations—namely, the organization or organizations known as “Jehovah’s Witnesses” or “Witnesses of Jehovah,” “The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society,” and “The International Bible Students Association have a subversive tendency and may be injurious to the public safety : Now therefore, pursuant to the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, Amendment No. 1, I do declare the said organization or organizations “ Jehovah’s Witnesses,” “Witnesses of Jehovah,” The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society,” and “ The International Bible Students Association to be a subversive organization or organizations for the purposes of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations 1940, and the amendments thereof. Dated this 21st day of October, 1940. H. G. R. MASON, Attorney-General. (See New Zealand Gazette, 1940, page 2752.)