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(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) Pi jAO UK OK GRASSHOPPERS. SYDNEY. March 21. A plague of grasshoppers has invaded part of Biverina district, and are doing considerable damage. Paddocks have been eaten away in less than a day. On many farms grasshoppers are so thick that fallow paddocks from a distance looks like stubble. HON. NELSON. ATTACKS X.Z. PRESS. SYDNEY. March 21. Hon. Nelson on arrival from New Zealand said the partisan press in New Zealand was controlled by the party in power. It had been very difficult Fo" tit people to ascertain the truth of the position. He felt confident that if the press had been impartial, and the people had been given a true insight into the affairs m Samoa, that the whole of the people in New Zealand would have risen up against the policy of the Government. He claimed some papers had published reports against him. but had not had the courtesy to publish his replies. In view of the censorship established in Samoa some months ago. only one side of the case had been sent to New Zealand and Sydney. chere was no reason why there should be a censorship of news from Samoa.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1928, Page 2
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