LIBEL CLAIM
BY EX-FIRE CHIEF
Lfy Telegraph—Per Presß Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, December 12
An action for £25 for alleged -libel was commenced at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. R. A. Stokes,' formerly Superintendent of the New Brighton Volunteer Fire Brigade, was the plaintiff, and the defendants were Samuel Harper McGeorge, Donald Arthur Harper and Tack Spicer, all members off the Brigade. It was alleged that the defendant had falsely and maliciously published a document to J. H. Shaw, Mayor of New Brighton, and J. Reynolds, which contained allegations that the plaintiff had stolen a twelve-feet length of downpipe from a house which had been damaged by fire. The statement was that Stokes ordered the firemen to remove the piping and place it on the engine, and that it was taken back to the station on the engine, and, at plaintiff’s orders, was put over a fence into the Council yard. The alleged libel was in a written statement signed by the defendants.. The case was adjourned part heard.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1929, Page 6
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166LIBEL CLAIM Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1929, Page 6
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