"INJURY TO PUBLIC."
SECRET CHILDREN'S COURTS.
SOUTHERN PAPER'S COMMENT
"MOST OBJECTIONABLE RESTRICTION."
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
CHRISTCHURCH, this day.
"Since the war the Press has had to submit to many restrictions, and ihe most objectionable, to our mind, are those that limit its rights is the matter of reporting the administration of justice," says the "Lyttelton Times" in the course of editorial comment on the decision to exclude reporters from the Children's Courts in Auckland.
"These restrictions are not in them selves a hardship on the Press. It matters nothing to a newspaper, as a newspaper, what limitations the law may place on its activities, but it matters a great deal to the public and to the Press, as representing the public. The injury that is inflicted is not an injury to the newspapers: It is an injury to the public, and the plain meaning of this new rule is that vhe public hereafter cease to be represented at judicial proceedings that involve the physical liberty of citizens. The rule offends against British tradition, against common sense and against public rights."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 10 July 1928, Page 8
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