AN UNPLEASANT STORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1922, Page 5

AN UNPLEASANT STORY.

COURT FORBIDS PUBLICATION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. „ “The object of this section of the Act,” said Mr. Justice Adams in the Supreme Court to-day, in making an order restricting publication, of the details in a divorce suit, “is clearly to prevent the publication of information pandering to the salacious individuals forming, I should say, a very gyn all section of the community. The case was that in which Mary Ann McGiobon, of Christchurch, petitioned for divorce from William Smith McGibbon, of Christchurch, an accountant, on the grounds of his adultery with an unknown woman in Hagley Park. Hia Honor said it was the duty of the Court always to exercise care and discretion in the execution of the power conferred on it by the section of the Act as quoted. Where, as in the case before him, the Court had been assured by counsel that the details were more than usually unpleasant he thought an order should be made. “I make an order,” he said, “restricting the publication of details of the case to the names of the parties, the allegations upon which the petition is laid, end the conclusion reached.”