DEFAMATION ALLEGED
PRIME MINISTER’S SPEECH (By Teleuraoii--P.es* *s«o«-latlon> WELLINGTON, Sunday ! At meetings in Petone and Lower Hutt Mr John Hogan, Independent candidate for Hutt, referred to state- ; ments about his character made by i the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, in his speech broadcast from j the Wellington Town Hall on Thursday night. Mr Hogan said that Mr Fraser j knew that his standing in Australia was of the highest aud that when he I came to New Zealand on a lecture ! tour before settling here he carried ' the highest credentials from public I men in Australia, including letters of ’ introduction to Mr Fraser himself j from one of Mr Fraser’s personal friends there, who held, and still holds, Cabinet rank. Mr Hogan said that he considered the remarks amounted to defamation of charac- : ter and he was placing the matter in the hands of his solicitors.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22153, 27 September 1943, Page 5
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