DAMAGES FOR KNIGHT
SYDNEY LIBEL ACTION CALLED A “SHIRKER” By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright SYDNEY, Thursday. _. The libel action in which Sir 1 nomas Henley, a member of the Legislative; Assembly, claimed £5,000 trom the ‘‘Daily Telegraph” Newspaper Co, ended in a verdict for £3OO. 1 laintiff claimed that the newspaper, in an article, accused him of using his official position as a member of the Water Board to fight Australian industries and workers. Also, that a second article, discussing the absence of five Nationalist members from a certain division in the Assembly, referred to him, among others, as a “shirker.”—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 15
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101DAMAGES FOR KNIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 15
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