MR. RUSSELL'S COMPLAINTS
"UNJUSTIFIABLE PRESS ATTACK."-
By Telegraph—Press Association. . .- ( - Christchurch, s'ebruary 3. The Hon. G. W. Russell complains that a statement which he made in Wellington, and which appeared quite accurately in tho papers [there, was mads the basis of an unjustifiable attack upon him by an Auckland paper. He stated this morning that he was surprised to see a Press Association message from Auckland on Saturday, saying that he had made a misleading statement to the effect that ho was alarmed at. seeing thai there were ninety-two .influenza notifications for Auckland district, and that eightynine of these were tent in by the same medical practitioner. Mr. Russell says that in the statement he made in. Wellington he particularly stated that in the ninety-two cases reported in a weeic in Auckland eighty-nine were old cases sent in by one practitioner, in order that he might collect the notification fees. Tho message from .Auckland assumed that he hod not made this explanation, and he regarded _ the circumstances as most unfair to him. ,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 4
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171MR. RUSSELL'S COMPLAINTS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 4
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