SLIPPER ARRESTED.
[ • , —— ■ . • SENTENCE TO BE SERVED. — + . . (By . Telegraph.—Press Association.; ■ WELLINGTON, Monday. • Advice';was .received by the Dep •.•meat •of ;.Extei-nal ; Affairs to j day : Thomas Benjamin Slipper, solicitor,' had been arrested at . P. ' Samoa.' ■■ ; ' . , inn Slipper appealed against his conuc , 011 two. charges,'one of publishing avJfamatory libel and the other ,i.° abusive, and insulting, words to Administrator. The convictions erre|---[v-posed ' by' the: High Court of - Wester Samoa. The Court of Appeal 7 . -that- the conviction■ on the; charge publishing- a - defamatory 'libel mus • upheld, but. that, the other convictw could'aot stand. . . e As Slipper had been ntenced to t months' imprisonment to be served c,M currently,, on '■ each eharge. '.however, ■ .decision of the Court did not rcs "]., a the . reduction of the Slipper lodged his-appeal he was 1 cleas
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 219, 16 September 1930, Page 10
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128SLIPPER ARRESTED. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 219, 16 September 1930, Page 10
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