CASE CONCLUDED

Southland Times, Issue 21265, 11 December 1930, Page 6

CASE CONCLUDED

ALLEGED WRONGFUL DISMISSAL.

DECISION RESERVED.

(Per United Press Association.)

Wellington, December 10. Further evidence was called in the Supreme Court to-day in the case in which Mrs Nellie Digby Smith claimed £2OO damages for alleged wrongful dismissal from the Radio Publishing Company, New Zealand, which had engaged her to conduct a special section of the Radio Record.

After hearing lengthy evidence, Mr Justice Blair reserved his decision.

A. J. Heighway, the managing editor, spent all the morning and part of the afternoon in the witness-box and there -were several other witnesses, mainly from the staff of the journal.

The case concluded with a re-examination of the plaintiff, who maintained that her copy was not late and that she was not expected to write as much as she did.

Heighway said that he had been disappointed to get only 18 typewritten lines from her after the Winter Show and he engaged an outsider to do the work, which was then satisfactory up till Mrs Digby Smith left. Witness had supplied more of the articles headed, “What Women Think” than the plaintiff did.