Libel Alleged; Election Sequel
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Proceedings involving a claim for £SO damages for alleged libel were brought by Thomas Farley, a waterside worker, at New Plymouth, against Sydney George Smith and Walter Crowley Weston, as publisher of the “Taranaki Herald,” in the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. The action was brought as a result of statements said to have been made by Smith in the course of an election address in the New Plymouth electorate at Moturoa on September 30.
The report of the meeting was published in the “Taranaki Herald” on the following afternoon. The alleged libel was contained in the statement: “If they’d caught you when you hopped your boat here, and sent you back, it would be a good thing for the country. When my people came out to New Zealand, they paid their fares.”
Farley took exception to the statements alleged to have been made by Smith at the meeting, and interrupted the proceedings, being ejected by a constable.
No evidence was called on behalf of either defendant, and at the conclusion of the case the magistrate reserved his judgment, which he said he thought best to put into writing.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1938, Page 10
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