Apology

In the issue of "Salient" for 19th June, 1974 under the heading "Watch for Spies", and in the issue of "Salient for 3rd July, 1974 under the heading "Malaysian Students: Beware of Spies" letters were published which have been taken to refer to Leong Tang Chong a Malaysian law student at Victoria University. These letters have been taken to infer that Leong Tang Cheong engaged in spying activities on Malaysian Students in New Zealand on behalf of the Malaysian Government. The Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association Incorporated and Wanganui Newspapers Limited, the printers of "Salient", are satisfied that the imputations contained in the published material were entirely without foundation and were defamatory of Leong Tang Chong who has instituted proceedings in the Supreme Court against the Victoria Students' Association Incorporated as publishers of "Salient" and Wanganui Newspapers Limited as printers. The Students' Association and Wanganui Newspapers Limited each unreservedly withdraws these imputations and offers a sincere apology to Leong Tang Chong for the serious injury to his reputation both in Malaysia and New Zealand and for the inevitable injury to his feelings which were calculated to arise from the publication of the defamatory material.