WOMAN FINED
BREACH OF CENSORSHIPREGULATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, April 28. Comment concerning troop movements contained in a letter to her husband overseas, resulted in a 21-year-old woman, Joyce Anderson, appearing before Mr Miller, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today, charged with a breach of the censorship regulations. The seriousness of thoughtless talking and also writing in wartime was emphasised by the magistrate and Detec-tive-Sergeant H. E. Campin. It was admitted by the prosecution that the giving of the piece of information in the letter to her husband was purely a thoughtless act. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed. His Worship said that because of the seriousness of the offence, he could not suppress the name. The regulations were aimed at people who through thoughtlessness talked and wrote about things that could be of value to the enemy, even though they did so with no sinister idea. There was always the risk of letters reaching enemy hands, and it behoved every person to think before talking- or writing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1942, Page 2
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170WOMAN FINED Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1942, Page 2
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