CHARGE DISMISSED
PRINTING COMMUNIST PAPER .- ' '
(Per Press' Association—l Copyright.)
'AUCKLAND, September 6. . Holding Tthat. a paper mimeographed on a duplicator after it had her® typewritten wfis no,t a printing press within the meaning of the Printers’ and Newspaper; Registration Act,. ‘ Mr McKean, S.M;, in his reserved iudgmemt' to-day, dismVed the charge against Lewi's Williams, aged 27, a labourer, that he offered ‘for sale a printed paper, on which the name and address of the printer were not printed. The paper in question was a Communist publication distributed on the wharf. : The Magistrate commented that the existing statute was an enactment of early legislation -which went back to the time when typewriters and . present methods of mechanical reproduction <wer© not in use; ..- The police intend to appeal against the decision.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1932, Page 6
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129CHARGE DISMISSED Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1932, Page 6
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