LIBEL CLAIM
£2 AWARDED.
ARTICLE WRITTEN IN GOOD FAITH.
WELLINGTON, February 25,
Damages amounting to £2 were awarded to Harry Ninhsun. Gooch, a sharebroker, of Wellington and Sydney, against the New Zealand- Financial Times Co., Ltd.’s,, editor, Howard Elliott, and its' printer, Ernest Fraser Jones, by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in a Supreme' Court judgment to-day. Gooch claimed £IO9O for alleged libel in an article of November 10, 1931. His Honour held that the article aa a whole was'capable of defamatory meaning, but considered it was written in good faith and without malice. He said: ‘ ‘Apart from such -errors of fact ,as those to which I have referred, and ' they are, after all, errors in matters of minor importance, the article, written a:? I believe in good faith, deserves not condemnation, but commendation. It bate given rise to an action in which a position is paid to exist that calV .loudly for the attention of the Legislature, inasmuch as, in my opinion, there is disclosed a necessity for further statutory protection to members of the public of the Dominion who may be looking for suitable investments for their-money.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1933, Page 2
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