CONTEMPT OF COURT.
A HEAVY FINE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, August 11. At the banco sitting of the Supreme Court, this morning, before Mr Justice Denniston, Mr Stringer, K.C., acting for the Crown, moved under section 432 of the Crimes Act, 1908, for the committment for contempt of Court of John Thomas McKinnpn, manager of the weekly newspaper "Truth," in respect to the publication by that journal of the details of a certain case in tne Magistrate's Court on January 30th last, the Magistrate having made an order prohibiting the publication of offence admitted. His Honor, in giving judgment, said that the facts disclosed a deliberate and impudent contempt of the Court, which heard the case. Defendant would bo fined JBIOO and costs. His Honor added that had the writer of the article been before the Court he would have imposed a sentence of imprisonment.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9566, 12 August 1909, Page 5
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145CONTEMPT OF COURT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9566, 12 August 1909, Page 5
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