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la the course of an iiat :*rview at Auckland on his return from Australia, the Hon F. M. B. Fisher said : "They make newspaper writers sign their articles in Australia' while elections are on. It is a capital law. It has the merit, too, of keeping writers reasonably close to facts, and making them liable for their bbels. We could do with some of that in New Zealand." What -stuff and humbug! Mr Fisher knows quite well, or he should Know, that it is the papers that ke >p the politicians in older, and not the writer*.. It is the papers that are liable for libel, as they properly shofild be, and not th ■editors. It is an insult to every journalist in the Dominion to suggest that the appending of his name to his article is necessary to keep him reasonably close to facts. Wo arc afraid that Mr Fisher's hobnobbing with the Labour leaders of Australia hits either turned his head completely, or seriously distorted his mental vision.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 May 1913, Page 4
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172SIGNED ARTICLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 May 1913, Page 4
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