"ONUS ON WRITERS"
LETTERS SENT OVERSEAS
BREACH OF REGULATIONS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. A fine of £4 was inflicted by Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Upper Hutt Magistrate's Court on Jessie Morrison Jackson for a breach of regulation 13 of the Censorship and Publicity Regulations. He appreciated that defendant acted innocently, but the regulations must be obeyed, he said. Tne letter which defendant wrote contained the kind of information that should not be sent overseas as it might result in a major disaster. The police stated that the excuse made was that, if there were offending passages they would be taken out by the censor or the letters be returned. It was physically impossible, however, for the censors to read every letter. Therefore, it was most necessary for the writers to see that they did not commit breaches. The magistrate also said that the onus was upon the writers to see that they did not offend.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 166, 16 July 1942, Page 6
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158"ONUS ON WRITERS" Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 166, 16 July 1942, Page 6
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