ELECTION SQUABBLES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 140, 15 June 1908, Page 5

ELECTION SQUABBLES.

new plymouth mayoralty. printersln" trouble. [press association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, June 13. Before Mr H. S. Fitzherbert, S.M., this morning, Gottlieb Roch pleaded guilty to a breach of the Printers and Newspapers Registration Act, 1858, in dispersing two copies of a paper which did not bear the printer's imprint. He was fined £10. John McNott pleaded not guilty to a similar charge. After hearing the evidence the magistrate reserved judgment. ' The case arose out of the recent Mayoral election- contest. The paper, in question was a copy of a letter signed "Water Dog," which appeared in the Auckland Free Press, reflecting on one of the candidates for the Mayoralty.