An Abuse.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 276, 27 May 1907, Page 2

An Abuse.

One of the greatest abuses of the privileges of the agents of the Press Association comes from Dunedin, where a money-lender, disappointed of his gains, sued his lady client for the amount, and the case was telegraphed all over the colony. The fact that the debt has been paid does not in any way lessen the enormity of the offence against good taste on the part of the agent, and it is to be hoped that drastic steps will be taken by the management to prove that persecution of the sort in question is not to.be permitted. The strange part of it is that if an agent from this end of the colony transgresses in however slight a degree by lending political color to a telegram, he is immediately rapped over the knuckles, but because Abraham Moss | (a significant name) chooses to lend money without security (and, of course, without interest) his friend in Dunedin placards the name of the borrower in every newspaper of the colony. That the borrower is a lady, who is earning her living on the public stage, is, to our mind, only another proof of the vindictivenees displayed in the persecution referred to, and we cannot too strongly condemn tfiis misuse of the privileges of a journalist.