JOURNALISTS SEEK PUBLICATION OF PRESS PRIVILEGES
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 10. The following resolutions were carried at a meeting of the executive of the Christchurch Journalists’ Union:— “That because of the misconception by the public of the privileges, uncodified yet traditional and long-established, held by newspaper reporters which has arisen from the judgment of Sir Harold Johnston, K.C., in the Ruapehu air disaster inquiry this union requests the New Zealand Journalists’ Association and the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors’ Association to collaborate in the preparation for publication in all newspapers of a statement explaining these privileges and the normal and ethical conduct of reporters in the gathering of news and the presentation of that news in newspapers. “That this executive expresses its concern that the Government continues to appoint to commissions of inquiry persons who are debarred because of reaching the age limit fixed under the Judicature Act from holding a seat on the Supreme Court bench.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 6
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