Criminal Code Amendment Bill.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
Wellington, This Day,
After the telegraph office closed, the Criminal Code" Amendment Bill was further considered in Committee.
The discussion on Clause 2 dragged on for hours, the principal speakers being Messrs Moss, Harding and Fisher.
At 4.'40 a.m. Mr Seddon said there was no intention whatever of adjourning. If two or three members thought they wero going lo coerce tho House they might as well postpone the end of the session for a week. He offered as a compromise to amend the clause to make it provide that defamatory libel in spoken words shall not exist unless such words arc spoken at a meeting to which persons are invited by letter, notice or advertisement, or in a. pubic road, street, park, wharf, hall or room, or within hearing of a given number of persons.
Mr W. H. Hemes (Bay of Plenty) objected to this, on the ground that it did not protect Parliamentary candidates in the forthcoming campaign, who might adversely criticise Government administration.
Towards 7 a.m. Messrs Taylor and Bedford were principally responsible for carrying on the discussion.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8278, 20 October 1905, Page 5
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187Criminal Code Amendment Bill. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8278, 20 October 1905, Page 5
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