BRINGING THE KING'S UNIFORM INTO CONTEMPT.
[by telegraph.— PRESS association.] Christchurch, Wednesday. The first case ever brought into Court in the colony under the Uniform Act of 1895 (a copy of the English Act of 1894) came before justices hero to-day, when Staff Sergeant-Major Farthing laid an information against John Brown for bringing the King's uniform into contempt. The facts were that Brown, for advertising purposes, wore an old band uniform, the fac-simile of a 14th Hussar uniform, and, with his face blackened and a scroll of music on his back, rode about the city. The justices held the case proved, but decided, as the Act was not well known, to inflict tb,e light penalty of 10s and costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11870, 23 January 1902, Page 5
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