APPEAL COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 4 October 1911, Page 5

APPEAL COURT

SOLICITOR STRUCK OFF THE ROLLS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. The Court of Appeal this morning, on the application of the Wellington' District Law Society, made an absolute rule to strike Arthur Harold Bunn off the roll of solicitors. The grounds for the order was that the solicitor had been «onvicted of embezzling his employer's money. Mr. A. CI ray appeared in support of the application, and Mr. T. Young for Bunn. Costs amounting to £ls 15s were allowed the Society.

MASSEY v. X,Z. TIMES.

Wellington, Last Night. I In the Appeal Court to-day,, in the matter of the appeal Massey v. N.Z, j Times to the Privy Council, Mr. Dillon Bell, K.C., informed their Honors that counsel had signed a memorandum, which he would submit for approval. He asked for an order that the registrar should embody the minutes in the record), as he id not wish it to appear that the suggestion had not the approval of the Court. The minute submitted was as follows: "At the trial of action, and on the hearing in the Supreme Court of New Zealand of a motion for a new trial, and on the hearing of the appeal in the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, it was common ground to both parties that, by the words "pamiphlets free" on the bundle in the cart depicted in the cartoon, was meamt the pamphlet reflecting on the Prime Minister referred to in the pleadings, awd defendant did not contend that the said words were capable of any other meaning, and that the case was presented to the jury by counsel for each party and by learned judge at the trial on the assumption that those words had that meaning." Their Honors approved oi the minute and granted' the application.