DAMAGES GIVEN FOR LIBEL

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 9

DAMAGES GIVEN FOR LIBEL

■NURSE’S ACTION SUCCESSFUL. . By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Ella Miller, registered nurse, was to-day awarded £75 damages when Mr. E. Page, S.M., gave reserved judgment in a libel action against Mrs. E.’ Williams, apartment-house keeper, y The nurse’s action was based upon remarks made by Mrs. Williams on a telephone when she said to the secretary of the Nurses’ Club that Nurse" Miller “had a man in her room until four o’clock in the morning.” The magistrate held that qualified privilege could not be sustained in the circumstances. In evidence a fellow-lodger had admitted that she had a man in her apartments at a late hour, but Nurse Miller did not.