N.Z. CENSORSHIP
ON CABLE NEWS. OF DOMINION DISTURBANCES. (Australian Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 19. With a view to preventing alarming reports being sent to overseas liens papers of the unemployed disturbances in New Zealand, the Government has decided, to enforce provisions of the Postal Regulations, empowering the censoring of the messages handed m for transmission abroad, This step has been taken oji the ground that certain news sept ovp-seab might tend to bo inimical to tho credit of "the Dominion, it being maintained that there is a clean proof of exaggeration being indulged in as iar as the messages relating to other outstanding occurrences, such as the Alurchison and Hawke’s Bay earthquakes, are concerned.
While the postal authorities will not suppress essential facts or an accmate description, they will not sanction the sending of reports that do not represent tlie situations in what, they consider, is a- true light; nor will they pass information which is considered to be confidential and which, in the ordinary course, would not be publ.shed by the authorities in New Zealand.
An indication that stops in this didection were to be taken by the Government was given by Mr Forbes, in reply to a question bv Air Black, in tbe House to-day. Mr Black asked, whether in view 01 the exaggerated reports sent abroad, concerning the Murchison and Hawke’s Bay earthquakes, as well as th e Auckland riots, steps would be taken to enforce the Postal Regulations and censor the cable messages. The Prime Minister said that it was to lie regretted that apparently, a number of the messages of an exaggerated kind had been sent to the newspapers. The Government was considering this matter with a view to taking appropriate action, if necessary. The censorship is understood to have actually operated to-da.v, when a message for overseas was refused.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1932, Page 2
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