DOMINION NEWS.
FORTUNE-TELLERS FINED. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Christchurch, June 28. Reserved judgment was given by Mr. McCarthy, S.M., in the fortune-telling cases, fines of £2 being inflicted on Sarah Coventry, Katherine Stanton and Harriet Coupland. The magistrate held that defendants, who are mediums associated with the local Spiritualist Church, did in fact tell fortunes and proof of the intention to deceive .was not necessary The mere fact that the doctrines of any religious body sanctioned a breach of the law was no justification for such breach. If the legislation was out of touch with modern conditions the remedy lay with the Legislature, not with the courts. PLUNKET SOCIETY. Wellington, Last Night. The Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Health) states that Cabinet has finally approved of a grant of £1950 towards the cost this year of buildings erected at the Karitane Hospital, Dunedin, in connection with the Plunket Society movement.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1921, Page 5
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