ACTION AGAINST A NEWSPAPER.
CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FOR ALLEGED LIBEL. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELZGJLAM.') GREYMOUTH, September 18. The hearing of the claim for £1000 for alleged libol mado by Noel Peat against the Greymouth "Evening Star" commenced to-day, before Mr Justice Sim and a common jury. The subject of" the claim haß regard to a paragraph appearing in tho local columns of the paper, stating "A country shopman with i pro-German, or at least, down-hearted British tendencies, has heen engaged,'for some- time_ exploiting the ; residents of this district." The ■ paragraph.' also alleged that ladies who waited- on the shopman for patriotic purposes, were not only refused assistance, hut were subjected to a tirade of abuse such as could only emanate from * creature of hu.
nish proclivities
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15699, 19 September 1916, Page 4
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125ACTION AGAINST A NEWSPAPER. Press, Volume LII, Issue 15699, 19 September 1916, Page 4
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