JOURNALISTS INSTITUTE.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, Sunday. At the annual meeting of the Otago branch of the Journalists' Institute it was resolved to recommend to the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute that the by-laws be amended to reduce the committee to the president, vice-president, general secretary, treasurer, and chairman of the respective branches. The general opinion was that at present the Council is too unwieldy. Mr. J. Hutchison was elected president, and Mr. 10, C. Jiuie secretary. At a supper which followed, the Mayor, town clerk, members of the Legislature, and representatives of the Law Society, cable and telegraph service, were present. Sir. J. A. Millar, M.H.R., in a speech, said that while thinking the newspapers had good protection at present from libel actions, he would heartily support any measure giving protection against blackmailing for imaginary libels. It was clearly laid down that if a paper stated what was actually true it was not libel.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12279, 25 May 1903, Page 5
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