CAMPAIGN COSTS
BY PARLIAMENTARY .CANDIDATE
WHO PAYS FOR ADVERTISING
(Per Press Association _ Copyright.)
INVERCARGILL. .July 25
The question of whether an advertising .account in respect to his campaign at the last general election in 1931 was payable by the candidate himself, °r by the committee sponsoring his candidature, formed the basis of a civil claim at the Magistrate’s- Court to-day. The plaintiff was the Southland News •Coy., which sought to recover from William McChesney the sum of £39 13 6 6d, being advertising in connection v/.h : f %> defendant’s campaign as a Parliamentary candidate for Invercargill .in 1931.. The following defendants were joined to the action on the alleged ground that the debt sued for was incurred by them, o r by their authority; —Arthur Hume Mackrell, share broker; Henry Francis Drewe, manager; Frederick George Stevenson, retired secretary ; land 'llnurs Wemsley, accountant ; all of Invercargill.
After ll'emgtiliy evidence had been heard, the hearing was adjourned until Friday, when legal argument will be heard.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1933, Page 5
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162CAMPAIGN COSTS Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1933, Page 5
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