LIBEL DAMAGES
£2 AGAINST NEWSPAPERS [Per United Press Association.J NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 20. Damages amounting to £2 were awarded by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the New Plymouth Court to-day to Thomas Farley, a waterside worker, against Walter Crowley Weston, publisher of the Taranaki ‘ Herald,’ for tha publication of a defamatory statement in the report of an address given oy S. G. Smith in. an election campaign. Action was taken by Farley against! both the ‘ Taranaki Herald ’ and Smith for £SO damages for libel. _ The action against Smith was dm missed, and the damages awarded against the ‘ Taranaki Herald 1 were the amount originally offered by the defendant’s solicitors in settlement of th# claim, together with a suitable public apology through the paper, but the offer was rejected by the plaintiff.
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Evening Star, Issue 23146, 21 December 1938, Page 1
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132LIBEL DAMAGES Evening Star, Issue 23146, 21 December 1938, Page 1
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