UNPURGED COURT REPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 11

UNPURGED COURT REPORTS.

■'. - - A PRESBYTERIAN PROTEST. SUGGESTED LEGISLATION. [»r TSLEOBAWrppES3 ASSOCIATION J CHKISTCHURCff, Friday.'/ • The need for keeping unclean . details out of the newspaper reports of divorce s and criminal cases • was urged at to-day's session of the Presbyterian General Assembly, when the following r< solution was moved by the Rev. J. Paterson, on behalf ' of the i Public Questions' Committee, and carried unanimously: ''^hat the assembly, approves the; action- of the committee re-; > garding certain, f newspaper reports, and expresses the hope that legislation will be introduced •to restrain newspapers from reporting unclean :details in divorce and criminal cases, ;both in the interest of ;■ the s reading public and of many newspapers that] refrain 1 ; from so doing. \ The ireport. of <the?committee; stated that . the 'ji press fof the Dominion I had 'in the past. merited, on the whole, th® commen- ; dation of f " clean," bnt recently the & columns 'of certain - papers had f been soiled tsi by filthy' details of divorce cases Mr. ; Paterson paid a'tribute, to'the action of the vast majority of. newspapers v who were not publishing, v arid had no desire to pr'jlish, unclean details. of cases. Those papers should'be protected,: and the interests ■of young. readers: shoiud f be s considered. is• " "We I can jbe of one ; mind only in regard to this; matter," • remarked the Moderator, Rev. Dr. ' Camming. - . • - .