“HAPPY AT LAST!’’

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 December 1924, Page 5

“HAPPY AT LAST!’’

MR. MASSEY IN THE. BATH

RIY AL bOAP iviaivEßiS. AT 1 LA\v

. There Were smiles in the / Supremo Couii> at Wellington on bauirutt/ morning when there was mehiioneu k case involving the alleged , infringemeat of a copyright in connection wnin a soap -advertisement. \ Tfie cause oi the smiles was a picture in ’ the advertisement representing a slight variation of the famous. ‘‘Baby in the bath;’’ for Pea-rs .soap, only tiie “baby” in this ease was none other than, the', Right Hon. W. F. . Massey, wearing -a. broad smile - as he graspeu a bar of soap, and. Underneath were the words!: “At, last he is happy..’’ In. the- ease before the court, A. F. Pears, .Ltd; (Mr. P. B. Oook) sought an injunction restraining the Union Soap and Candle Company, Ltd; (Mr. H. Evans) from; publishing the advertisemcrit. . A proof of the offending poster was produced in court and shown to His Honor- Mr. Justice Hosking, whose judicial solemnity was completely shattered > at the sight of the Prime. Minister-’, in- the guise of a smiling infant, ' disporting himself in the bath. \

Had the case proceeded there is- no doubt there would have been a , most interesting legal argument on the point as to whether Mr. Massey could possibly look isufficieptly like the Pears soap baby or any other, to constitute an infringement of the patent rights, but unfortunately, on the motion of Mr.' "Ehrans.", the place of trie. 1 w-as altered to Auckland, as being;the place where 'the . defendant company '• idomieiled.