THE VALUE OF PUBLICITY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 4

THE VALUE OF PUBLICITY.

IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. The value of publicity , in legal pro* ceedings was instanced in a matter that was before Mr. Justice Cooper at the Supreme Court yesterday meriting. The case under notice concerned George Tuckwell, son of. the late Richard Tuckwell, of Tinakori Road, Wellington, and entitled to a sum of money under the Matter's will. George Tuckwell, however, could not be found, and 'was presumed to be . dead. The distribution of the money .among other memDers of the family had been postponed by order of the Court, in view of the fact that the death of Ucotga Tuckwell might possibly be no more than a legul presumption. Mr. Justice Cooper, sitting in Chambers yesterday, fixed next Tuesday afternoon as the time for re-opening the matter. Mr. H. S. Machell, who appeared for the family, asked whether his Honour would take the matter in Court or in Chambers. ' His Honour : In Cotr;. The utmost, publicity should be given to it. When the ease was before me last February, the press gave—and quite rightly—a great deal of publicity to it. They regarded it as a sensational case, and reports appeared all over New Zealand. The result was that further evidence was brought forward. The nature of the evidence alluded to by bis Honoui, and some additional particulars of this interesting case, an recorded under another, heading.