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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16491, 8 November 1927, Page 11

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RABAUL INCIDENT

OFFICIAL'S ACTION CONDEMNED KABAUL, Oct. 27. Mr. Hamilton, founder of the Babaul Times, died in Melbourne on October 15, the news being published three days later. The business m Kabaul has been conducted by the present management for the past' three montbs. A will was deposited in the Central Court here, and the executor, who was absent in Melbourne, wirelessed his instructions to carry on pending his return to Rabaul early in November. Last Thursday tbe curator of intestate estates at .Kabaul, on an ex parte application to the Registrar, obtained an order to administer the estate, issued orders to the management, and tried to .seize the plant. Counsel was immediately briefed to move for an order to have.it set aside. During a few minutes' absence of the manager the curator entered the machine room, ordered the removal of the imprint, and an insertion that the paper was printed and published by the curator of intestate estates. ITe ordered the removal of an article criticising, the Administration. Yesterday the High Court set aside the order, the judges remarking on the indecent haste to .seize valuable property. The application, they declared, should not have been made and the order should never have been granted. No single requirement under the law had been complied with. The order was set aside, with costs against the curator.