THE CENSORSHIP.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3645, 4 December 1920, Page 5

THE CENSORSHIP.

The N.Z. Mercantile Gazette says: A gentleman called upon us this wees with an envelope'which had container a letter he had written to his daugH r ter in the United States —a lady no 7 resident there, but whose honie is in Zealand —and which was marKed "Passed by the New Zealand Censor," a business man showed us a letter he had received a week or two since from a correspondent who has a large motor manufactory near Chicago which read as follows: "We notice that, your letters to us are still being censored. We are under the belief that the practice of opening letters entrusted to the post office had been abandoned, surely yours must t>e the only country in the world in which the censorship still exists." We baa* no idea until we received these communications that business and '■"

letters posted here were still liable to be opened and read "by a Government official, and cannot understand what reason there can be for such an intolerable intrusion of officialdom. We can only surmise that the censor, whoever he or she may be, has some advantage over most people, in being able to draw a salary from the public funds, although the raison dfetre for so doing has long since disappeared, and we suggest that the official In question might be capable of doing mere useful work in some other sphere of life. In the meantime, we protest most strongly in these days of peace p gainst any person, official or otherwise, having the right to violate the sanctity which attaches to all correspondence entrusted to the post office.

The i)'!\v electric power station at Glasgow, Scotland, takes rank as one of the largest in the country. It Is designed for an ultimate capacity or over a quarter of a million horse power, and each generating unit —of which there are five in the first half of the station recently completed—will be of 24,000 horse power. Each boiler is capable of producing 62,000 lbs. of steam in an hour. All the latest labour-saving device for loading coal into the bunkers., stoking tne furnaces, and removing the ashes are installed and a very high degree of , economy in the production of electricity on a large scale is assured.

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