MOTION DISMISSED.
ALLEGED CONTEMPT,
SYDNEY, April 23,
The High Court, without calling on counsel for the respondents, to-day dismissed the motion brought by Eliot Valens Elliott for committal for contempt of Mr R. G. Menzies. (Federal Attorney-General) and the editor' of the Sydney Morning Herald.
In the High Court on February 4 before Mr Justice Evatt, Eliot Valens Elliott, who is a seaman, sought a contempt order against Robert G. Menzies, and C. Brunsdon Fletcher, editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. The application was based on statements by Mr Menzies to a deputation from the Seamen’s Union on December 18 concerning the strike, and published in the Herald the following day, Elliott, claiming that the publication prejudiced the case on the same matter on which the High Court had hitherto reserved judgment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 9
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