CENSORSHIP CONTROL
ALLEGED SUBVERSIVE PUBLICATIONS. CASES OPENED IN AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Asociation.) AUCKLAND. This Day. The first charges authorised by the Attorney-General under the Censorship and Publicity Regulations. 1939. will be heard in the Auckland Police Court next Tuesday, against five men whose cases, on being called today, were adjourned. One group of charges concerns lite weekly journal. "The People’s Voice.'' Donald McCarthy and Cyril John Gould arc charged that on February 9 and 16 they published subversive reports in the journal and secondly that they permitted it to be printed for publication with a view to facilitating, the publication of subversive reports.
Walter Ashton, William Goss Dickenson and Frank Simpson are charged with publishing subversive reports’in the form of leaflets and Ashton and Dickenson are also charged with requesting Simpson to print the leaflet. When the cases wore called, the Crown Prosecutor. Mr V. R. Meredith, made no objection to an adjournment and agreed to supply the defence counsel with details of the particular passages in the publications which the Crown contended wore subversive.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 6
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175CENSORSHIP CONTROL Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 6
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