SAMOAN SITUATION
A CENSORSHIP APPLIED ADMINISTRATOR TO DECIDE A censorship over messages sent from, or to, Samoa is applied by Order-in-Council gazetted yesterday. It is provided that the Administrator may, in his absolute discretion, prohibit the transmission from Samoa, or the delivery in Samoa, of any telegram of any of the following classes: — (1) Any telegram expressed in code, unless it is accompanied by a transcript certified as correct to the satisfaction of the Administrator. (2) Any telegram which in the opinion of the Administrator contains matter of a treasonable, seditious, libellous, or grossly offensive character. (3) Any telegram which in the opinion of tlie Administrator is intended or is likely to instigate tlie commission of any criminal offence. (4) Any telegram which in the opinion of the Administrator is intended to or may cause any person in any way to prevent or hinder or attempt to prevent or hinder the due performance by the Government of New Zealand of its functions and duties in relation to Western Samoa, or is, in the opinion of the Administrator, in any way calculated to prevent or hinder the due administration of the Executive Government of the Territory.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 8
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195SAMOAN SITUATION Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 128, 28 February 1928, Page 8
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