SUIT FOR LIBEL.
AN ALLEGED PRO-GERMAN SHOPKEEPER. Greymouth, Sept. 18. In the Supremo Court to-day the hearing of the case Noe! Peat v. “Greymouth Evening Star,” a claim of £I,OOO for alleged libel, was commenced before Mr Justice Sim and a common jury. The claim was made in regard to a paragraph appearing in the local columns of the paper stating: “A country shopman, with pro-German, or at least downhearted British, tendencies, has been engaged for some time exploiting the residents in his district.” 'The paragraph also alleged that ladies who waited on the shopman for patriotic purposes were not only refused assistance, but were subjected to a tirade of abuse such as could only emanate from a creature of Hunnish proclivities.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1612, 19 September 1916, Page 3
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122SUIT FOR LIBEL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1612, 19 September 1916, Page 3
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