"BY MAIL TO AVOID CENSOR"
Recently the Nelson City Council submitted toj^ocal bodies throughout New Zealand a recommendation- to the Government for strict supervision of news sent overseas. We do not know how many local, bodies supported the Nelson view, but many of, the most influential disapproved censorship- They recognised that free and accurate reporting was the best corrective of distortion. Iri the House of Representatives yesterday, on the other hand, Mr. H. Holland (Christchurch North) called for a strict censorship of cables. The demand is ill-timed. Only a week or two ago Wairoa protested against an official message published in Australia which under* stated the effects of the East Coast earthquake.This protest, with the demand for stript censorship, must create in the minds of the public overseas greater uneasiness than a few distorted reports. A few weeks back a series of articles written by a special ■'. correspondent of an American newspaper appeared under the line: "By Mail to Avoid Censor." This is more damaging to the country than exaggeration in the recording of disasters. 'And no censor can suppress the fact of the existence of a censorship.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1932, Page 6
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