TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1922, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

U 1 IELEUItAI-U —REA PRESS ASSOOIAI ION ELECTRIC POWER SCHEME. HASTINGS, May 17. The formal opening of the Havelock North hydro electric power scheme, 2ol) h.p from the Marvetotnra stream, ior a local supply, took place this afternoon in the presence of representatives of Napier, Hastings, Waipukurnu, and Hawke’s Buy local bodies. Several speakers stressed the delay of the Government regarding the pushing on of the Waipukurau scheme, and urged that pressure he brought on the Government or else that local bodies follow the lead of Havelock North and take the matter into their own hands. DIVORCE CASE. CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. “The object of this section of the act ” said Mr Justice Adams, in the Supreme Court to-day, in making an order restricting the publication of the details in a divorce suit, is clearly to prevent the publication of information pandering to the salacious individual forming, I should say, a very, very small section of the community. I lie ease was that in which Mary Ann McGihbon, of Christchurch, petitioned for a divorce from- William Smith McGibbon, of Christchurch, accountant, on the grounds of adultery with an unknown woman in Hngley Park. His Honour said that was the duty of the Court always to exercise care and discretion in the execution of the power conferred on it by the section of the act as quoted. Whereas in the case before him, the Court had been assured by counsel that the details were more than unusually unpleasant, lie thought an order should be made. “I make an order.” he said, “restricting tlie publication of the details of the case to the names of the parties, the allegations upon which petition is laid and the conclusion.”