ALLEGED LIBEL.
ACTION AGAINST A NEWSPAPER
(ill TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH. April 28. Counsel addressed the jury to-day in the action for alleged libel by Mr Cyrus Williams, engineer to (he Lyttelton Harbour Board. against the “Christchurch Press” Company. Mr. 'Williams claimed £SOO in respect to each of two letters published in the newspaper. Mr. Ayers, for the defendant, said that no person was entitled to look at a letter through a microscppc and to try to find an imiendo in it. and the paragraph must- be regarded as a whole. Any newspaper was entitled to express an opinion as long as there was no malice in it.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1927, Page 7
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108ALLEGED LIBEL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1927, Page 7
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