Not “Qualified Privilege”
NURSE GETS £75 DAMAGES. }-Vr Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Ella Miller, a registered nurse, was to-day awarded £75 damages when Mr E. Page, S.M., gave reserved judgment in a libel action against Mrs E. Williams, apartment housekeeper. The nurse’s action was based upon remarks made by Mrs Williams on tho telephone when she said to the secretary of the Nurses Club that Nurse Miller “Had a man in her room until four o’clock in the morning.” The Magistrate held that qualified privilege could not be sustained in the ■circumstance's. In evidence fellow '.odgers had admitted that she had had a man in her apartment at a late hour, but Nurse Miller did not.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7294, 2 August 1930, Page 6
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116Not “Qualified Privilege” Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7294, 2 August 1930, Page 6
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