FREE SPEECH.
To the Editor. Sir,—Your continual assertion that there is no infringement of the rights of free speech in the decision of the City Council not to allow Gerald Griffin to speak from the Band Rotunda is not yet backed by any facts from you. Your compassion for audiences having to stand out in the cold, also that Mr Griffin’s audiences will be large enough to engage a hall, is quite beside the point and are only attempts to divert people’s attention from the main argument. Perhaps you might help your readers to understand your viewpoint by clearly defining what you understand'as an infringement of the right of free speech.—l am, etc. “FAIRPLAY.” [Action which prohibited a lawful statement on a public question would be an infringement of free speech, but a decision that merely prevented a speech being delivered in a certain place does not come under that heading.—Ed. S.T.]
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Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 11
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152FREE SPEECH. Southland Times, Issue 25312, 15 June 1935, Page 11
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