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ALLEGED PUBLICATION OF SHIPPING NEWS

NEWSPAPER PROSECUTED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, October 20. The Brett Printing and Publishing Company was charged in tho Police Court that on September ill, without the written oonsent of >he military authority, it published in the Auckland "Star" a statement as to the whereabouts of a sea-going ship not exclusively engaged in the coastal trade in New Zealand. The vessel referred to was the motor launch that arrived at Aitutaki, Cook Islands, on August 31. Mr. Mays, for the Crown, contended that the launch in question was a seagoing vessel. James Percy Ridings. Collector of Customs and reporting officer to the Naval Department, said that a "Star'' reporter called upon hiai for information regarding the launch, and ho warned tho reporter that no information should bo published until it was submitted to the authorities. >.< Mr. M'Veagh, for the defendants, submitted that the scope of the regulations related not to such a vessel as a launch, but i;o larger vessels. Counsel hand?d iu a copy of .tho proclamation of the Governor of Tahiti, warning shipping of tho danger in the Pacific. T. W. Leys, editor and director of !he "Star," saW that when he received the report he considered that it did not come within the regulation. Decision was reserved.

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 30, 30 October 1917, Page 7

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ALLEGED PUBLICATION OF SHIPPING NEWS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 30, 30 October 1917, Page 7

ALLEGED PUBLICATION OF SHIPPING NEWS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 30, 30 October 1917, Page 7

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