CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.
ACTION BY'EX-NEW ZEALAND' JOCKEY. PROCEEDINGS IN SYDNEY. (Received Thursday, 8.20'p.m.) SYDNEY, February 13. A former New Zealand jockey, Maurice Joseph MeCarten is the plaintiff in a pending claim for £5OOO damages against Arthur Leslie Herbert Hopkins, newspaper publisher. The claim is in respect to the publication in the 1 ’ News Letter, ” of “ Hopkins ’ Turf Form” of articles which MeCarten, in an affidavit read before a Judge in Chambers to-day, alleged “formed part of a systematic attack made upon him by the paper for some time past. ’ ’ McCarten’s declaration said the articles meant that he was a “dishonest person and had been guilty- of’improper, corrupt practices, that he had’ betrayed the trust of employers and was not fit to fulfil the calling of a joekey.” MeCarten was granted’ an order for the disclosure of' the name and address of the person who had supplied the articles. He said he desired to issue a separate writ against the writer. Hopkins pleaded not guilty and setout that the articles were fair bona l fide comments concerning MeCarten in his publie : capacity and were published' without malice, in the public interests..
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Wairarapa Age, 14 February 1936, Page 5
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190CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. Wairarapa Age, 14 February 1936, Page 5
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