LIBEL CASE
VERDICT FOR £3OO. Sydney, June 15. The libel action in which Sir Thomas Henley, a member of the Legislative Assembly, claimed £5OOO from the Daily Telegraph Newspaper Company ended in a verdict for £3OO. Henley claimed that the newspaper, in an article, accused him of using his official position as a member of the Water Board to fight Australian industries and workers, also that a second article, discussing the absence of five Nationalist members from a certain division in the Assembly referred to him among the others as shirkers. —A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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94LIBEL CASE Southland Times, Issue 20205, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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