SECRET INQUIRY
INTO JOHANNESBURG LOTTERY SHOULD A REPORTER TELL? BIG PRINCIPLE AT STAKE. (United Frees Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 6, 10.20 a.m.) Johannesburg! Jan. 5. The “Rand Daily Mail” described the drawing of a lottery in a Johannesburg hotel a few weeks ago. Tho Minister of Justice, under the Police Administration Act, ordered an inquiry, to which the editor of the “Mail” and a reporter wore summoney to give evidence. The Magistrate held the inquiry in camera. The reporter admitted authorship but refused to disclose the names of those present or the hotel where the lottery was drawn He was warned that refusal involved contempt, for which there was a penalty of eight days’ imprisonmmeut. To-day the reporter persisted in his attitude, his solicitor arguing that the whole system of journalism would be undermined if the police could insist on journalists revealing the sources of information given confidentially. The inquiry was adjourned until Wednesday. The Minister of Justice states that the law must take its course. The annual Congress of Journalists nt Bloemfontein has pledged its moral and financial support in defence of a great principle.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 19, 6 January 1930, Page 5
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