A CAPE LOTTERY
A REPORTER’S ATTITUDE. L United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.] (Received this dav at 11 a.m.) CAPETOWN, January 5. Mr Rand in the “Daily Mail” described the drawing of a lottery in a Johannesburg hotel a few weeks ago. The Minister of Justice, under the Police Administration Act ordered an inquiry to which the editor of the “Mail” and a reporter were summoned to give evidence. The Magistrate held the inquiry in came*a. The reporter .admitted authorship, but refused -o lisclose the names of those present ov the hotel where the lottery .was drawn. He was warned that refusal involved contempt, for which there was a penalty of 8 days imprisonment.
1 To-day the reporter persisted in his attitude, bis solicitor arguing that the whole system of ,journalism would be undermined if the police could insist on journalists revealing the sources of information given confidentially. 'Hie enquiry was adjourned until Wednesday.
The Minister of Justice states the law must take its course.
The annual emigres of journalists at Bloemfontein pledged its moral and financial support, in defence of a great principle.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1930, Page 5
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