PRIVILEGE IN HOUSE
CRITICISM OF OUTSIDERS QUESTION FOE MR. SAVAGE (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. When the House of Representatives met yesterday afternoon Mr. W. J. Poison (Nat., Stratford) gave notice to ask the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, whether he had seen the correspondence in the press relating to privileges of the House and what action he intended to take to prevent an injustice being done to persons outside the House, also whether in view of the wide publicity given over the air to Parliamentary debates, he would consider an amendment of the standing orders or an alteration of the law of libel to protect innocent persons from being subjected to defamatory or slanderous criticisms of their conduct and reputation, when those persons had no opportunity of replying over the air, and, lastly, whether the Prime Minister would give the House an early opportunity of discussing this question.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 13
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152PRIVILEGE IN HOUSE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 13
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