WRONGFUL DISMISSALS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1930, Page 9

WRONGFUL DISMISSALS

■ ' i'■ ' ■ ■ ■ ; CLAIM MADE BY JOURNALIST.# COURT GRANTS FULL AMOUNT. •I , - • By Telegraph.—Press Association. .Wellington, Last Night. : 4-' f Judgment for £2OO, the full amoun| claimed, was given, by Mr/ Justice Blair in a reserved. decision delivered in the Supreme Court to-day in the case? ih; which Mrs. Nellie Digby Smith proceed-, ed for damages for alleged wrongful dismissal against the Radio Publishing Company. ' ' 1 . J Plaintiff said she was given charge of the electrical home section of the Radio Record for not less than two years at £6 Cs a 2 wek from December,; ,1029. The defence. was that plaintiff.; was also to contribute to the-Dairy;Ex-porter. It was denied that there was an engagement for. no’t less than’ two? years and.it was stated the engagement was terminated on account of a breach by plaintiff of the terms of her contract in that she did not as required'-j supply, material to.fi 11 six or eight pages'. <a week, tluit ’ she < was ’usually late. in;. • Isupplyihgp material,' thiit ; t’he quality? wra poor and not original,.and that gins failed to keep id. touch with the-elcCr? trical' trade, and as a result 'of her gleet or inability ’defendant -had; advertising. matter and the section of/ the paper placed in charge of plaintiff? had suffered and deteriorated so as to? lower the general standard of the news-/ paper. I