AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
VARIOUS MATTUKS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Received Jan. 13, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, Jail. 13. The Sunday Sun increases its price to twopence from February 10. It will contain thirty-two pages, including sixteen of intaglio art pictorial. There has been a steady deluge of rain since Thursday, and floods are reported in country districts. An interesting controversy has arisen between Mr. Fitzgerald (Minister of Health) and Senator Pearce, respecting the operation of the censorship. Senator Pearce challenged Mr. Fitzgerald to produce evidence of one single instance wherein a deletion was wade from war news from Britain. He accepted the challenge, publishing expunged passages in a recent message referring solely to football matches among the Australian forces. Cqmmenting on such censorship, lie said it was of a particularly poisonous kind, because it was political censorship for party purposes, adding: "It" Mr. Pearce wants further instances lie can have them, not sinclv. tot in batitalionfc"
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1918, Page 5
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153AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1918, Page 5
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