EX-FIRE CHIEF’S ACTION
1 ; LIBEL SUIT AGAINST MEN OF BRIGADE 5 £25 DAMAGES CLAIMED Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today, j An action lor £2D for alleged libel was begun in the Christchurch Magistrate's Court yesterday. R. A. Stokes, formerly superintendent of liie New | Brighton Volunteer .fire Brigade, was plaintiff, and the defendants were Samuel Harper McGeorgc. Donald Arthur Harper and Jack Spicer, all members of the brigade. It was alleged that defendants had falsely and maliciously published a document to J. H. Shaw, Mayor of New Brighton, and J. Reynolds, which contained allegations that plaintiff had stolen 12ft of downpipe from a house which had been damaged by flre. The statement was that" Stokes ordered a fireman to remote the piping and place it on the lire-engine and that it was taken back to the’ station on the engine, and at plaintiff’s orders put over a fence into the council yard. The alleged libel was in 1 lie written statement signed by defendants. The case was adjourned, part-heard.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 16
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167EX-FIRE CHIEF’S ACTION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 16
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