“ABUSE OF PUBLICITY”
PRIMATE’S STERN COMMENT STIFFKEY RECTOR CASE ECHO SORDID DETAILS REGRETTED. RESTRAINT BY LAW SUGGESTED. (Unit&a Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) ■. LONDON, June 1. “I am conferring' with lawyers to see if it is possible to legislate whereby the abuse of 'publicity can be restrained without injuring justice,” said the Primate in alluding at the opening of the Canterbury Convocation to the StifEkey case, ; in which charges $T immorality had been made against the rector, Mr. Davidsoii.' -’ ! ' “It raises the issue whether it is necessary, in the interest of public morals and justice, that such a stream of sordid, unsavoury details should be poured into the public mind. I‘have received many indignant protests, including one from the Diocesan . Council at Perth. He added it was deplorable to think details of the case had been telegraphed to every part of the Dominions.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 June 1932, Page 9
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