DR. LISTON AGAIN,

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1922, Page 4

DR. LISTON AGAIN,

SEQUEL TO RECENT TRIAL. RESOLUTION OF CITY COUNCIL. OBJECTION TAKEN TO IT, By Telegraph.-—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The City Council has received •following letter from Mr. Conlan, legal adviser to Dr. Liston: “I have been instructed by his lordship Bishop Liston to communicate with you regarding an entry in the minute book of the City Council purporting to record certain resolutions passed at a meeting of the council on March 23, 1922. The minutes contain against the reputation of Dr. Liston; indeed, they go as far es to impute to him that he committed a crime. The council must now be aware that the result of his recent trial was to establish that such an imputation was unfounded. One of the minutes, therefore, contains reflections upon Dr. Liston that are false, and such minutes are open to inspection by members of the public. I have therefore, on Dr. Liston’s behalf, to request that steps be taken by the council to expunge these minutes and to ask you to inform me at the earliest possible date whether this will be done. It is hardly necessary to intimate that unless this act of bare justice is done Dr. Liston will <be compelled, as the only means that will lead to the expunging of the offensive minutes, to resort to proceedings to recover damages for libel, a course which in the interest of all parties should if possible be avoided.” The matter -was referred to the city solicitor and a committee of the whole council.