SPICY DIVORCE CASE.

Grey River Argus, 18 May 1922, Page 4

SPICY DIVORCE CASE.

PUBLICATION GF DETAILS FORBIDDEN. 1:7 JUSTICE. ADAMS. CHRISTCHURCH, Mav 17. ‘‘The object of this sectional the let.” said Air Justice Adams, in the Supreme Court to-day, in making an >rdor rcstrieHng xh,» publication of the lotails in a divorce suit, is clearly to prevent the publication of information, pandering to the salacious individual forming, I should say, a very, very 'mall section of the commtfnity. The •use was that in which Alary Ann. Mcilibbon, of Christchurch, petitioned for i divorce from William Smith AlcGibbon. of Christchurch, Accountant, on ihe grounds of adultery with an unkrown woman in Ilagley Park. His Honour said that it was the duty >f the Court always to exercise care md discretion in the execution of the •ower conferred on it by the section • 1 the act as quoted. Whereas in the ?ase before him. the Court had been usured by counsel that the details were noie than usually unpleasant, he bought un ord« r should be made. “1 make an order,” he said, ‘‘restricting he publication of the of the mse to the names of the parties, the illegal ions upon which petition is laid, md the conclusion.