JOURNALISTS CONCERNED
EXPLANATION SOUGHT FROM MINISTER REMARKS AT CANTERBURY MEETINGS Christchurch, This Day. The Christchurch Journalists’ Union is to seek an explanation from the Minister of Primary Production. Mr Barclay, of remarks made at recent meetings of the Primary Production Councils in Canterbury and his direction that reporters should be excluded. This was decided at a special meeting of the Union. A letter to be forwarded to the Minister states: “Concerned only with unnecessary reflections on the integrity of working journalists, particularly are we concerned at the inference to be drawn from your request that reporters be asked to leave a meeting at Christchurch after the meeting had gone into committee. The suggestion that confidential information would be published is one that Canterbury journalists resent. The matter is of vital importance to the union as it affects the professional reputation of every one of its members in Canterbury. Had you dealt with the question other than by inference and innuendo this letter would, not have been necessary.”—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 27 November 1942, Page 4
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