FORMER N.Z. JOCKEY’S CLAIM

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21707, 14 February 1936, Page 18

FORMER N.Z. JOCKEY’S CLAIM

£SOOO DAMAGES AGAINST SYDNEY PUBLISHER

(Received February 13, 9.15 p.m.) i SYDNEY, February 13. A former New Zealand jockey, Maurice Joseph McCarten, is plaintiff in a pending claim for £SOOO damages against Arthur Leslie Herbert Hopkins, newspaper publisher. The claim is based on the publication in the “hews letter” of “Hopkins’s Turf Form” of articles which McCarten, in an affidavit, read before Mr Justice Bavin in chambers to-day, alleging that they “formed part of a systematic attack made upon him by the paper for some time past.” McCarten’s declaration said that the articles meant that he was “a dishonest person and had been guilty of improper' and corrupt practices, that he had betrayed the trust of his employers and was not fit to fulfil the calling of a jockey.” McCarten was granted an order for the disclosure of the name and address of the person vvho had supplied the articles. He said that he desired to issue a separate writ against the writer. Hopkins pleaded not guilty and set out that the articles were fair bona fide comments on McCarten in his public capacity and were published without malice in the public interest.