ALLEGED LIBEL.
AN ACTION FOR DAMAGES. (Pe& United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 12. An action for £2a for alleged libel was commenced in the Magistrate’s Court today. R. A, Stokes, formerly superintendent of the Now Brighton Volunteer Fire Brigade, was the plaintiff, and the defendants were Samuel Harper M’Gcorge, Donald Arthur Harper, and Jack Spicer all members of the brigade. It was alleged that the defendants had falsely and maliciously published a document to J. H. Shaw, Mayor of New Brighton, and J. Reynolds, which contained allegations that the plaintiff had stolen a 12ft length of down pipe from a house which had been damaged by fire. The statement was that Stokes ordered a fireman to remove the piping and place it on the fire engine; that it was taken back to the station on the engine, and at the plaintiff’s orders put over the fence into the council yard. The alleged libel was in a written statement signed by the defendants. The ease was unfinished when the court rose.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20899, 13 December 1929, Page 8
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170ALLEGED LIBEL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20899, 13 December 1929, Page 8
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