POSTAL CENSORSHIP INQUIRY
AN OFFICIAL ADMISSION. By Telegraph.—Press Association. "Auckland, Aug. 20, At the postal inquiry, Harry Seabrook produced correspondence with "postal officers in regard to the return of a letter nddressod to Menace, an American publication, which letter was marked "nrohibited." Tie also produced a letter from the Postmaster-General expressing regret that this letter had been returned, 6specially as there was no authority for that act. The Postmn-U' MVnm'l asmired Seabrook that the person who marked the letter as prohibited was mi officer of tlie department, lie had no doubt that the lettci had been stopped through a misunderstanding. The Post-lna-ster-GeneiiU was -not .aware of any urbanisation to stop the issue of Menace nii:| 'assured Seabrook that neither of the two officers concerned in the stopP'njj of the letter in question was a ; lionijn Catholic. ; : Mr. Gray asked witness WTicther li,. ! would accept vise- statement thai neither ; (>r officers concerned was i>, Ronw, | Catholic. After some hesitation he replied, "Yen, T do; but 1 want to know who & at the i»ok of those ofllcera.'
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1917, Page 8
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