SUICIDES.
The newspaper proprietors j of New Zealand have been requested not to publish the details of suicides. The reason for this request apparently is that the publicity given to tragedies leads to others. On this point there is room.for a wide difference of opinion. The newspapers have a public duty to perform. That duty is very responsible, and its fulfilment entails, the consideration of all aspects of a question; "It has yet .t6 : be demonstrated ' thaV the publication'bi:- reports of suicides.,has had the effect of multiplying ithese tragedies. * That there has, been a wave of suicides passing! over the Dominion is unhappily too true. The responsibility for, this, however, must be sought; elsewhere, .than 'through the columns of the, newspaper!'.'".'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10164, 14 February 1911, Page 4
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121SUICIDES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10164, 14 February 1911, Page 4
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