NAME SUPPRESSION

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 492, 23 October 1928, Page 1

NAME SUPPRESSION

NOT FAIR TO EMPLOYERS MAGISTRATE’S STRAIGHT TALK (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTOX, To-day. Claiming that courts of justice should not hoodwink employers by actively suppressing facts, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court to-day, refused the suppression of the names of Victor Daniel Wisneskey (3G) and John Grey (42), charged with fighting in the Commercial Hotel after the races on Saturday. According to the police, Wisneskey, who was slightly under the influence of liquor, attempted to enter the hotel, but the proprietor sought to restrain him. Grey, secretary to the Power Board, then came to grips with the proprietor, and a scuffle ensued. The police arrived and locked up both offenders, who were subsequently bailed out. Xeither defendants appeared in court to-day, and Mr. H. T. Gillies said the accused were both highly res- ! pectable, with an unblemished record. If their names were published their positions would be prejudiced, and if the conviction came to the knowledge of their present employers defendants would probably lose their jobs. The magistrate said that both men were of mature years, and it was not right for courts of justice to hoodwink employers by suppressing facts. Eacn [ defendant was fined 10s and costs.