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Press Association. TIMARU, December 5. The Supreme Court was occupied all day over a libel action in which Dr H. C. Barclay, Waimate ( claims £SOO damages from tho Waimat© Workers’ Union and, its president, .John Smith, for reflections on his professional character in a resolution passed by the union. Plaintiff’s case is net completed. ’ WANGANUI, December 5. In the Supreme Court to-day William Merson was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for embezzling £I7OO from the Public Works Department by means of altered vouchers. AUCKLAND, December 5. Patrick Alfred McGuire was sentenced in. the Supreme Court to ten years’ imprisonment for • criminal assault on » child under ten.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8296, 6 December 1912, Page 8
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