BIG LIBEL ACTION.
SYDNEY NEWSPAPER SUED. VERDICT FOR £3OO. '"or Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The libel action in which Sir Thomas Henley, a member of the Legislative Assembly, claimed £SOOO from the "Daily Telegraph". Newspaper Company, ended in a verdict for £3OO. Sir Thomas Henley contended that the newspaper, in an article, accused him of using hiss official position as a member of the Water Board, to fight Australian industries and workers, and also that a second article, discussing the absence of five Nationalist members from a certain division in the Assembly, referred to him, among others, as a shirker.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVIII, Issue 10943, 15 June 1927, Page 5
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106BIG LIBEL ACTION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVIII, Issue 10943, 15 June 1927, Page 5
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