MAGISTRATE’S ORDER TO NEWSPAPERS
BAN ON PUBLICATION OF ALIASES
(New Zealand Press Association) HASTINGS, September 11. In an order unprecedented in the Magistrate’s Court in Hastings, Mr W. A. Harlow, S.M., to-day forbade the newspapers to publish the aliases of an accused person. When the Clerk of the Court began to charge a woman under four aliases contained in the information the Magistrate called an immediate halt. He demanded that she be charged under one name only. “There is no reason why the newspapers should publish any other name,” he said. "I do not know where they get their information from.” Questioned by the Magistrate, the accused gave a name different from any included in the charges. This was accepted by the Magistrate.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26524, 12 September 1951, Page 5
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