LAW RELATING TO NEWSPAPERS.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 41, 24 September 1892, Page 8

LAW RELATING TO NEWSPAPERS.

1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary are considered as wishing to continue their subscriptions. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance oftheir periodicals the publisher may continue to send them until arrears are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect to continue to take their periodicals from the office to which they are directed, they are, directed,'they are held responsible until' they have' settled their account, and ordered them to be discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without informing the publishers, and the papers are sent to their former | direction, they are responsible. 5. The Courts have decided that ," refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing or. leaving them un* called for, is primd facie evidence of intended fraud."

i 6. Any person who receives a newspaper and makes use of it, whether he ordered it or not, is held in law to be ai subscriber. 7. If subscribers pay in advance they are bound to give notice tj the. publisher at the end of their time if they do\, not wish to continue taking it, otherwise ? the publisher is authorised to send it in, and the subscriber will be responsible' until a fresh notice, with payment of arrears, is sent to the publishers.