"WHAT ON EARTH FOR?"
SUPPRESSION OF NAME.
MAGISTRATE'S REFUSAL.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
HAWERA,. this day.
'■What on earth for?" said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when counsel for Michael Patrick Comerford, a postmaster, asked for the suppression, of his name. Comerford appeared to answer _ a charge, under the Arms Act, of failing to notify his change-of address, as the holder of a war relic firearm. He pleaded guilty, and he was convicted and ordered to pay costs.
Counsel, in answer to the magistrate, said Comerford was a postmaster. "What on earth has that got to do with it?" repeated Mr. Salmon. "It's a purely technical offence, under the Arm 3 Act. Yet Comerford may be an excellent postmaster. This conviction doesn't affect his honesty or worth in the least."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 133, 7 June 1929, Page 10
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