MASSEY v. NEW ZEALAND TIMES
SYNOPSIS OF PRIVY COUNCIL JUDGMENT. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright LONDON, 19th May. In delivering tho judgment of the Judicial Committee of tho Privy Council in the appeal Moseey v. tho Now Zealand Times. Lord Atkinson said the question turned on whether the cartoon applied to Mr. Masaey personally and whether it attacked his private character. Dealing with the paragraph headed " Poisonous Pamphlet," his lordship said that while the paragraph exculpated Mr. Massey and his colleagues from circulating it, it inculpated the parly with'nuking allegations of dishonesty, fraud, a,nd ■ deceit. Plaintiff's accusation of Tarn» manyient was political warfare, and fair comment. His lotdehip regretted tho absence of the full report of Sir John Findlay's speech fin the legislative Council] when the paragraph' was publitthed m order clearly to have established to wjiich "He ho exhorted tho Opposition io hitch its wagon. On the evidence the decision of tho Appeal Court of New Zealand must stand.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 119, 20 May 1912, Page 7
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160MASSEY v. NEW ZEALAND TIMES Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 119, 20 May 1912, Page 7
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