N.S. WALES POLITICS
SYDNEY, March 2.
The Legislative Assembly passed the second reading of the Defamation Amendment Bill., rendering persons printing insulting matter liable to punishment similar to those using insulting language in public. A motion to treat the removal of alien employees in the public service as a matter of urgency was negatived. The Cabinet has discussed the publication of unauthorised political news. Mr Holman subsequently stated that no attempt to gag the press was intended. He added to the reporters : "If you want to sell newspapers you must sell them on their own merits—not by selling information which is not theirs' to retail and which is of a strictly private character."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3234, 8 March 1916, Page 62
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113N.S. WALES POLITICS Otago Witness, Issue 3234, 8 March 1916, Page 62
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