POST OFFICE CENSORSHIP INQUIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1917, Page 5

POST OFFICE CENSORSHIP INQUIRY.

(POWERS miABQm By Telegraph.—Press Asso«iitS<gt . Wellington, I*- 4 The powers of the commission Mf'W to inquire into certain charge* agg&tf the officers of the Auckland poet have been extended to inthida tit* sew# lo inquire: (a) Whether •"~*f\lWlll addressed to post office b« W2'«Cl Auckland has been corruptly or to properly suppressed or detained by thi officers of the post office; (b) on whal grounds the military censorship has been ■established over the correspondence o| the persons using the said post offid box. His Excellency's warrant proceeds; "3 do thereby further direct and declart that nothing in the said warrant of July •25, 1917, or in this present warrant, shnll so operate or bs. so construed as to authorise any inquiry into the estab- *- lishment, organisation, authority, or practice of the system of military censor* *hip existing in this Dominion during the present war, save so far as any ; ' »ueh matters being relevant to tha tar * qulry, authorised by the said warrajrU mav be voluntarily, and with .due auth* ority, disclosed by the officers of th« said censorship in the course ol that tn» quiry, and save also the inquiry lter«jn. : before expressly authorised as to the grounds on which such military c«ime> ship has been established oil tat cm* spondencc of the persons using th* gogf office box aforesaid.