SUIT FOR LIBEL
SEQUEL TO ELECTION MEETING SMALL DAMAGES AGAINST NEWSPAPER (Per United Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 20. Damages amounting to £2 were awarded by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M.. in the New Plymouth Court to-day to Thomas Farley, a waterside worker, against Walter Crowley Weston, publisher of the Taranaki Herald, for the publication of a defamatory statement in the report of an address given by S. G. Smith in an election campaign Action was taken by Farley against both the Taranaki Herald and Smith for £SO damages for libel. The action against Smith was dismissed, and the damages awarded against the Taranaki Herald were the amount originally offered by the defendant’s solicitors in settlement of the claim, together with a suitable public apology through the paper, but the offer wr k s rejected by the plaintiff.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23688, 21 December 1938, Page 12
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138SUIT FOR LIBEL Otago Daily Times, Issue 23688, 21 December 1938, Page 12
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