'PRO-GERMAN" LIBEL ACTION
— —'0 I GBEYMOU'ffi "STAR" SUED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Creymouth, September 18. In the Supremo Court to-day the hearing of the case Noel Peat. v. the "Greymouth Evening Star," a claim of £1000 for alleged libel, was commenced before Mr. Justicc Sim and a common jury. The ' subject of the claim was in regard to a paragraph appearing in the local columns of the paper, stating: "A country shopman, with pro-German, or at least downhearted British, tendencies, has been engaged for some time exploiting the residents in his district." The para- ' graph also alleged that ladies wlio 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 e creature of Hunnish proclivities.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2880, 19 September 1916, Page 6
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130'PRO-GERMAN" LIBEL ACTION Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2880, 19 September 1916, Page 6
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