SLANDER ALLEGED
CHURCH DEACON FINED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Louis Alfred Silson, a gardener by occupation, and a deacon of the Pentecostal Chureli of New Zealand, otherwise known as the Assemblies of God, was to-day fined £5, costs £2 18s, on the first prosecution ever heard under the Marriage Amendment Act. , The defendant was alleged to have implied or expressed that Jesse Charles Hawkins and his wife were not truly and sufficiently married. . . ~.•■.' The Magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, said that Silson in a letter sent to the complainants said: "We have no further fellowship with Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins under present conditions."' Mr. Hunt traversed the evidence, and said: "Now, this coining from a spiritual adviser to religious-minded people like the Hawkins must be very distressing and disturbing, and is tho very mischief the Act was passed to prevent." As it was; the first prosecution, tho penalty would not be heavy, although offenders were liable to a fine of £100.. ■-.: . ,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 13
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163SLANDER ALLEGED Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 88, 14 April 1930, Page 13
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