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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 95, 16 January 1920, Page 8

An alleged "joke" which turned out anything but a joko to the perpetrator was investigated in tho Police Court at Port Pirie, S.A., recently, when Mi.-. Annie liayball appeared to answer n charee of criminal libel preferred by Mrs. Gertrude liayball, a sister-in-law. It was explained that on October 18 an advertisement appeared in. the "Recorder"'to tho elfeet that Mr. and Mis. George C. liayball had been presented witli twin boys. They had been married only a little over four months, an. naturally tlioy were very indignant, 'i'li"Recorder" had been mado liable to : prosecution for li'bel, and would have If pay heavy damages if it went into Court. The defendant's solicitor said that, seeing that the accused had slit that tho advertisement had been inserted .as a joke, and he was satisfied that it was a joko, though a serious ono, and ns it was n lesson to everyone in the town) not to play jokes of the kind in future he would as. »tho Court to allow the information to be withdrawn. Subsequently the information lapsed, and a public apology was inserted in the "Recorder," in which Mrs. liayball admitted that she deliberately misled the management of the "Recorder," and induced tho "Recorder" to accept as genuine and properly authorised (in advertisement: which was fnlse_. At the lime she did not realiso the serious consequences that were likely to, and did, iwnlt from this action. She now knew that she made herself liable to a fine in JJ.iIM and imprisonment for a year. . A German field pun lias been presented to AVliitgift Grammar Sehcol, Croydon (England), in recognition of tho services of the Officers'. Training Corps of the school. Sufferers from Hay Fever will enjoy Bpeedy relief by breathing in "NAZOL." A unique, never-failing remedy. W) dosea 1b lid. Uso the Nazol Inhaler— Advt,