An Imprint Case.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxii, Issue 6657, 25 August 1905, Page 3

An Imprint Case.

A CURIOUS PROSECUTION.

Nelsom, Aug 25 Some days ago, George Gilbert, agent for the Retailers' Protection Association, was prosecuted on a charge of circulating a printed letter warniug a debtor of being posted if ho did not pay hi* creditors,

and making a final demand for payment. The charge was that the paper bore no imprint. The defence stated that it was purely a commercial paper, and not a paper within the meaning of the Act, not being dispersed or distributed in the sense or circulation. Also that it was feasible for anyone ti U3e either a typewriter of printer's type for saving time in letter writing. In his reserved judgment to-day.

the Magisttato held that the defence was irresiatiblo, and the case was dismissed.

Tho paper lio hold to be a business comuinnira^ion, pirtly wiitten and partly printed. The M-tgi-strate said that he wai fu'ly alive to tho t'dct th,v in the hands of unscrupulous persons a p:vptr of the nature unJpr review could be used to work harm, but that the matter was not one for him, but for Parliament.