SIGNED ARTICLES.
AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION.
By Cable—Press Association —Copyright.
Melbourne
November 1
A deputation representing seven hundred provincial newspapers in the Commonwealth waited on Mr. Thomas to protest against the Electoral Act as applied to newspapers. They objected to the vagueness of its wording and the excessive fines in connection with publishing, advertising, or representations of ballot papers likely to mislead, or incorrect statements likely to interfere with an election. They strongly protested against signed articles and reports, which requirements hit the country press bard, since the correspondents of those journals would refuse to sign their names.
Mr. Thomas promised to lay the representations as to excessive fines before the Ministry.
Mr. Thomas was personally strongly in favor of signed articles.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19121102.2.31
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 142, 2 November 1912, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
120SIGNED ARTICLES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 142, 2 November 1912, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in