SUPPRESSION OF NAME.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 4

SUPPRESSION OF NAME.

HAMILTON MAGISTRATE’S VIEWS.

“ONLY IN SPECIAL CASES..”

The light in which Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., regards the much discussed question of name suppression found voice at the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton to-day, when counsel, asked for an order suppressing the name of a youth of 18 who had been admitted to probation for two years on a charge of dishonesty. There were several considerations his Worship said, which weighed with him as to whether a name should be suppressed, and he would only make an order when the circumstances were of a very special natijre. In eases where the accused was a youth of tender years or an elderly rnnn whose life until the autumn of his days had been a blameless one, his Worship would consider the suppression of a name. However, lie would not entertain the suppression ( S f a committed person's name merely for the sake of the relatives who wanted to save their own faces.

“This boy," added the Magistrate," is a previous offender, has twice been shown leniency, and is again receiving the Court’s clemency. His only real punishment therefore is the publication of bis name, and I shall not make any order for its suppression."