DAMAGE TO DOMINION
("Post" Special Commissioner)
CENSORSHIP OF MESSAGES CABLED OVERSEAS DESIRED QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT
WELLINGTON, Tuesday. In the House of Representatives today Mr. G. C. Black (llnd., Motueka), asked whether, in view of the fact that exaggerated reports were cahled overseas from New Zealand descrihing the damage caused by the Murchison earthquake and the Napier earthquake and the fact that much prominence had been given to cahled reports of the Auckland disturbances in London and other newspapers, which led one to assume that exaggerated scare news had once again been dispatehed, the Government Would lay it down .as a policy that the postal regulations should be enforced and that all untruthful and exaggerated news items would be subject to censorship. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, replied that it was regretted tha't a number of exaggerated accounts of the trouble in Auckland had been sent and the Government was at present considering the matter with a view to taking appropriate aetion if necessary. It is understood that the Government has already enforced a censorship.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 203, 20 April 1932, Page 5
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