ALLEGED LIBEL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 August 1925, Page 5

ALLEGED LIBEL.

APPLICATIONS FOR CHANGES OF VENUE. .

(BY TELEGRAPH. PR ESP ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 25. Arising out of the recent dairying controversy in the Waikato three applications for changes of venue in the hearing of actions for alleged libel or alleged slander came before Mr Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day. Two were granted and the third adjourned. In the case- in which Samuel Lye, a farmer of Nwstead, claimed damages from William Goodfellow, managing director of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, Hamilton, for alleged libel, counsel agreed that the application for a change of venue ought to be granted and an order was made accordingly. A similar application, in an action for alleged slander brought by J. I. Fox, organiser, of Hamilton, against William Goodfellow, was opposed. His Honour held, however, that it was obviously more desirable that the ease should'not be heard in Hamilton and made an order accordingly. Both actions were set down for bearing in Auckland early in November. His Honour said it would be advisable to remove the hearings from Hamilton. Such a large number of residents of the Waikato were associated with the dairy industry that difficulties might be experienced in empanelling juries. The third application for a change of venue concerned a ease in which English and Luxford, accountant's, of Hamilton, are- bringing an action for alleged slander against Dynes Fulton, of Pukekohe, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company. The application was adjourned, as other applications are pending in respect of the same matter.