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A GREYMOUTH CASE
GIIBVMOUTH, September 18. At the Supreme Court to-day fcho case in' which a. claim for £1000 for alleged libel is made by Noel Peat against the Greymouth "Star" commenced before Mr Justice Sim and a. common jury; . • . The claim . w»s with regard to a paragraph appearing in the local columns of thn paper stating: "A country shopman with pro-German, or at least down-hearted British, tendencies, has been engaged for sorno time exploiting the. residents of his district." Tire paragraph also alleged that " ladies who waited on the shopman for patriotic purposes were not only refused assistance, but were subjected to a tirade of abuse such as could only emanate from a creature of Hunnish proclivities."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 4
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120ALLEGED LIBEL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 4
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