THE NODINE CASE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 844, 16 June 1910, Page 4

THE NODINE CASE.

OTHER PROCEEDINGS INSTITUTED.

Instructions having been given that Charles Nodine, tailor, of Wellington, should be proceeded against on an infonuation for alleged perjury, the police served him yesterday with a summons, calling upon him lo appear in the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, June 29. II will be remembered that on May 31 and Juno 1, Nodiue defended a Supreme Court action for specific performance, brought against him by James Alexander Hannah, boot and slioe manufacturer. The case -was heard before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout). The evidence tendered at the hearing was to the effect that Sodino had entered into an agreement with Robert Hnnnnh to lease premises in Lamblon Quay for a term of five years, from January 1 last, at a rental of ,£SOO a year. In the office of Messrs. Chapman, Skerrett, Wylie, and Tripp, Nodino and Robert Hannah signed a document containing instructious for the drawing up of the lease, but when the , draft "lease was submitted to him, Nodine refused to sign it. In explanation, Nodine told tho Court that ho believed that the document signed by him had been' tampered with. He declared on oath that a clause in the instructions ' for lease, providing that ho must not sublet the premises to a boot or shoe manufacturer or vendor, was not in the document when ho signed it. When the document put into Court as the original agreement was handed to Nodine by the Chief Justice, Nodiue asserted that it did not tear his signature. The Chief Justice, having, warned Nodine before he went into the witness-box, remarked that he did not believe the. evidence given by him, and informed him that, unless he withdrew the statements made and apologised, proceedings for perjmy would be taken against him. Later ou, when the caso was again mentioned, Nodine, on being asked by the Chief Justice if ho had anything to say, replied that it was his intention not' to withdraw the statements made by him in evidence.