CLAIM FOR £2000
Action Against Newspaper (IV.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. June 13. A Raglan county councillor and chairman of the Franklin County Town Committee since 1957, William Henry Bates, a Raglan transport operator, is claiming £2OOO in the Supreme Court at Auckland for alleged libel against the County Chronicle Press. Ltd., publishers of the “Raglan County Chronicle,” and William Edwin Rack, a publisher, of Manurewa. The hearing is before Mr Justice Boys and a jury and is expected to last 10 days. The alleged libel was contained in a letter published in the “Chronicle” concerning the removal of trees in Green street, Raglan. "An extreme, vicious, unjustifiable attack on a public man," said Mr A. L. Tompkins, Q.C., opening Bates’s case. The hearing will continue tomorrow. Walked Through Window. —A 28-year-old commercial traveller, leaving the office of the Paramount Group of Companies, 126 Cashel street, at 10.15 a.m. yesterday accidentally walked through a £25 plate glass window. He was not even scratched.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29848, 14 June 1962, Page 11
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162CLAIM FOR £2000 Press, Volume CI, Issue 29848, 14 June 1962, Page 11
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