BREACH OF PRIVILEGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 10

BREACH OF PRIVILEGE

EDITOR TO BE ASKED TO EXPLAIN REPORT OF MEETING Press Association AY E LLING TON, Friday. A question of breach of privilege was raised by Mr. AY. E. Barnard (Labour —Napier), in the House of Representatives today. Mr. Barnard took objection to a report of proceedings of the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board published in tho “Napier Daily Telegraph/ Mr. Barnard asked for the extract to be read. Tho report was headed “Not Cricket,” and the particular paragraph to which Mr. Barnard referred was headed, “Deliberately Lying.” It read as follows: —“Mr. Barnard was defeating the object of the statement of Mr. Priest at the board meeting,” said Mr. S. J. McKee. “Unfortunately that statement in Hansard is incorrectly reported. It: Parliament can’t give us correct statements, it is very little use this country having a Parliament. It would be far better to have 20 serious men go down to Wellington than one man from here deliberately telling lies to bolster up a bad case.” The Prime Minister, the TTon. O. W. Forbes, said it was a very serious matter, in which the whole House was concerned. There had been undoubted breach of privilege, and he moved that tho editor and the publisher of the paper and Mr. S. J. McKee should be asked to make an explanation. The motion was adopted.