WAR REGULATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14441, 30 October 1917, Page 6

WAR REGULATIONS.

IS A MOTOR LAUNCH AN -OCEAN-' GOING SHIP? {Per Tress Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The Brett Printing and Publishing Company was charged at the Police Court that on September 21, without tho written consent of the military authoriies, it published m the Auckland "Star, a statement as to the whereabouts of an ocean-going ship not exclusively engaged m the coastal trade m New Zealand. The vessel referred to was a motor launch that arrived at Aitutaki,. Cook Islands, on August 31. - Mr Mays, for the Crown, contended that the launch m question was a sea-going-vessel. James Percy Ridings, Collector of Customs and reporting officer to the Naval Department, said a Star reporter called upon him for information* regarding the launch, and ho warned the reporter that no information should be published until it was submitted to the authorities. : Mr McVeagh, for the defendants, submitted that the scope of the regulations related not to such a vessel as a launch, but to larger vessels. Counsel handed' in a' -copy of the proclamation of the ;Go'vernfe "6f Tahiti, warning shipnihg of danger ' m the Pacific. • ■"•"*' !l '* ._■■■'"■.''■■ •_■ ■" T. W.'Leys. editor ano I ' 'director *6f the '"Star, said that when 'he received the report lie'c6nsia**r(ed that it did not come within •the'ig^iila'tip-ns.;?;: " '.";.. " Decision was reserved.