McARTHUR PAMPHLET

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1934, Page 5

McARTHUR PAMPHLET

THE PUBLISHER PROSECUTED.. NAME OF PRINTER NOT STATED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Nov. 8.. As a sequel to the publication of a pamphlet entitled “McArthur strikes back at the Coates and Kelly gang,” Maurice Vincent Bates, Auckland manager of the Investment Executive Trust of New Zealand, Ltd., was charged In the Police Court 'with dispersing and with publishing a pamphlet in which the place of .abode, of th® printer was not stated. He pleaded guilty. The police said that over 1500 pamphlets had been printed. Bates said that they had been printed on instructions from Australia. The printer had been prosecuted on similar charges at Wellington. Counsel said the offences were only technical. The defendant had relied on the printer, who said he thought the printing of the firm’s name was sufficient- , . The magistrate suggested that a conviction on one charge would suffice, but the prosecuting detective said he had been instructed to press both charges. , The magistrate raid he appreciated defendant’s bona fldes and fined him the minimum, £5, on both charges. He also suggested an application to the Minister for a remission of one fine.