ALLEGATION OF LIBEL
MESSAGE TO UNIONS SUM OF £6OO SOUGHT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON., this day. Douglas Gibson in the Supreme Court to-day sought judgment for £6OO for alleged libel from Vinton Patrick Walsh and Felix Newfield. the plaintiff representing that the defendants, falsely and maliciously wrote and published certain words concerning the plaintiff to all members of unions affiliated to the Federated Seamen's Cnion and certain other words to the general secretary ot the Australian Seamen's Union, and other words to the secretary of the Auoknnd Seamen’s Union. The defence was a denial of (lie allegations. and a. further defence was that the words wore bona lido, and without malice and were privileged. (Proceeding)
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 15
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115ALLEGATION OF LIBEL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 15
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