RADIO RECORD CASE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 446, 11 December 1930, Page 7

RADIO RECORD CASE

DISMISSED WRITER’S CLAIM. COURT RESERVES DECISION. [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Dec. 10. Further evidence was called in the Supreme Court to-day in the case in which Mrs Nellie Digby Smith claimed £2OO damages for wrongful dismissal from the Radio Publishing Company of New Zealand, which had engaged her to conduct a special section of the Radio Record. After hearing lengthy evidence Judge Blair reserves his deci-, sion. ’ A. J. Heigh way, 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 plaintiff, who maintained that her copy was not late and that she was not expected to write as much as she did. Heighwav said 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 Digbv Smith left, witness had supplied more of the articles headed “What Women Think” than plaintiff