MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENT
(P.A.) Dunedin, Aug. 31. Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., nas delivered judgment in the cases in which the Evening Star and Otago Daily Times were each ciyirged with having published a mcfcical advertisement in which the true name and address of the person for whom the advertisement was published were not stated. The magistrate ’sustained the Times defence ol the advertisement not being a medical advertisement witnifi the meaning of the Act, and dismissed the charge. He said this advertisement appeared in the Star in a slightly different form, bringing it within meaning of the Act, and the company rightly pleaded guilty. The case was the first laid under the Act and a £5 fine would be inflicted. In regard to charges against Ralph Baker Hall, trading under the name of Privex Chemical Supplies, the magistrate found a charge of inserting an advertisement in the Star proved, and inflicted a £5 fine. On a charge of a breach of the IndeccaJ Publications Act the defendant was fined £lO.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 207, 2 September 1943, Page 5
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