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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16928, 30 December 1922, Page 17

Magistrates are. frequently asked by ■ counsel to suppress to names of accused persons, and at the .New Plymouth Court a similar request mot with strong opposition from Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M. An application for tlie suppression of the accused’s name was made on account of the suffering that would bo caused to his wife by publication. “ Part -of the penalty of crime is the publicity given to tho no mo of tho offender,” said Mr Mowlem. “ Tn all cases in which crime is alleged, innocent people are always made to suffer A man ought to think of the effect of his conduct upon hi.- relatives, and ' do not think it is for the Court to do what an accused' person is not thought, ful enough to do.” There were cases in which, on conviction lor an offence. Mr Mowlem added, a sufficient punishment was the recording of convictions on the records of the Court, but that was not always the case. The mere fact of entering a conviction was not; of itself a punishment.. but. that, plus the publicity, often was sufficient punishment. Tn view, however, of the fact that counsel asked merely for the suppression of the name for forty-eight hours, so that lie could acquaint the. wife of her husband’s misfortune he fore the papers conveyed the news, AT” Mowlem granted the request for the period stated. A striking, and in some ways remarkable. record of the Canterbury earthquake was made by the seismograph at the Kelburn observatory. The time of the. first, waves is shown as minutes past three. The unusual feature of the record is the evidence it gives of successive shocks ti liich at intervals checked the swinging of the seismograph boom, so that the record is broken up into sections. Dr ('. F,. Adams, tlio Government Seismologist,’ states that; the time of arrival of the shock ;n Wellington agrees closely with the assumption that the disturbance centred close to Waikari. which is forty miles north j of Christchurch. Dr Adams reports | the curious circumstance ihat one of the observatory clocks was found *■> | have lost three seconds, presumably I owing to the effect of the earthquake. Dr C. M. Hector reports that his . clock was stopped at a few minutes after three o’clock.

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