DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1943, Page 6

DOMINION ITEMS

CAR STRIKES POLE. CHRISTCHURCH, August 31. When the car in which they were driving from Rangiora to Fernside left the road and struck a telephone post, at about 2.30 this afternoon, a boy and a girl received serious injuries. They were Donald Harper, aged about 14, and Beverley Amyes, aged about 17, daughter of Mr. C. G. Amyes, of FernsiderBoth were admitted to a private hospital in Christchurch. It is believed that Harper has a fractured skull. The Rangiora to Cust. telephone service was interrupted for several hours by the damage to the line. MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENT DUNEDIN, August 31. ■ Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., delivered judgment to-day in the cases in which the “Evening Star” and the “Otago Daily Times” were each charged with having published a medical advertisement in which the true name and address of the person for whom the advertisement was published was not stated. The Magistrate sustained the defence of the “Otago Daily Times” that the advertisement was not a medical advertisement within the meaning of the Act and dismissed the charge. He said that this advertisement appeared in the “Star” in a slightly different form bringing it within the meaning of the Act, and the company rightly pleaded guilty. The case was the first laid under the Act and a’£s fine would be imposed. ' In regard to the charges against Ralph Baker Hall, trading under the name of Privex Chemical Supplies the Magistrate found the charge of inserting an advertisement in the “Star” proved, imposing a £5 fine, and on a charge of a breach of the Indecent Publications Act, defendant was fined £lO.