NEWSPAPER FINED
UNREGISTERED PRESS
MAG ISTEATE \S COMM ENT
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. In a reserved judgment to-day Mr. E. Page, S.M., convicted Truth N.Z. Limited of keeping an unregistered printmgi press, and imposed the minimum fine of £5.
After completely traversing all sections of the Act relating to printers and presses, Mr. Page said the scheme of the Act, as lie regarded it, was to require all printing plant to be registered and ali the output to bear an identification mark, namely, in respect of newspapers, tile name and address of both the printer and the publisher, the place of printing, aiid publishing, and the dale of publishing. The newspaper must also be registered, lie considered, therefore, that section 3 of the Act, under which the prosecution was laid, was of general application, and that every printing press, whether used for printing a newspaper or for printing other matter, or for both, must be registered under section 3.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 14
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