DOMINION NEWS.
ACTION FOR SLANDER.
Per Press Association
Wellington, August 23
The action in which Edward Gerald do May sued Roderick Dickson Harkness for. £501; damages for aheged slander was resumed to-day. Tinparties are farmers: at Te Horn, and trouble arose out of a statement al leged to have.been.made by jUarkness to May that, "Von are afraid to sell sheep at Otaki and Waikanae. You took Ryder's sheep." George Ernest Bills, a youth, it whose presence the plaintiff said defendant had made the statement complained of, gave evidence denying thai lie heard the words. He had signed a statement that such words had been used, but now denied that tins was true. The judge declared there was no proof of publication, and uon-suited plaintiff with costs.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 24 August 1916, Page 2
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126DOMINION NEWS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 24 August 1916, Page 2
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