AN EXPLANATION
DELAY IN REPORTS QUESTION OF CENSORSHIP We have often been held blameworthy' and accused of being unobservant, by our readers, when they fail to read in our columns the arrival and departure of local men from overseas. We would like to dispell any imp ' pression that this oversight is due to the present chronic staff shortage, and to point out thiat the press throughout the Dominion is subjected to a rigid censorship. In many cases editors are placed on their honour to divulge no movement of troops or ships, by placing welcome homes and farewells upon record, until a fairly safe period has elapsed after the event hias passed. The Beacon is therefore compelled to exercise the utmost care in thisi respect, for it is considered far more dangerous to permit the recording of such events in black and 1 white, than to allow it to travel, perhaps to the same extent, by word of mouth.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 69, 24 June 1942, Page 5
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158AN EXPLANATION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 69, 24 June 1942, Page 5
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