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Tom Young, inciting seditious strike
William Thomas YoungUnion secretary, born 1870, New ZealandTried: 4 October 1917, Wellington Magistrate’s CourtCharge: Inciting a seditious strikeSentence: Three months’ imprisonment.Arrested under War...
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Convictions for sedition 1915-18
The War Regulations Act 1914 allowed citizens to be arrested and charged with sedition for making ‘disloyal’ or ‘seditious’ statements, either verbally or in print. Such statements could be made in...
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Alphonsus Parsons, seditious utterances
Sawmill hand Alphonsus Hugh Parsons was among the men who ran afoul of the military authorities for trying to opt out of the conscription system.His first brush with the law came in March 1917, when he...
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Amy Bock sentenced in Dunedin Supreme Court
Amy Bock (South Otago Museum)The Tasmanian-born confidence trickster had topped off a long career impersonating well-off men for financial gain by posing as a sheepfarmer and bishop’s nephew. ‘Percy...
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Stolen medals returned to National Army Museum
Police return the recovered medals to the National Army Museum (NZ Herald/newspix.co.nz)The 96 medals, including nine Victoria Crosses, two George Crosses and an Albert Medal, had been stolen from the...
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51 killed in mosque shootings
New Zealand’s Muslim community suffered an horrific attack when a self-proclaimed ‘white nationalist’ opened fire on worshippers at mosques on Deans Avenue and in Linwood in Christchurch. Fifty people...
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Slave trader competes in Wellington Anniversary Regatta
Captain Thomas McGrath skippered the winning whaleboat in a race on Lambton Harbour which carried a £10 prize. The second-placed boat was also from his ship, the Grecian.Forty-seven-year-old McGrath...
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