WOMAN FINED
BREACH OF CENSORSHIP REGULATIONS. ONUS ON WRITERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A fine of £4 was inflicted by Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., at Upper Hutt, on Jessie Morrison Jackson for a breach of Regulation 13 of the Censorship and Publicity Regulations. Mr Goulding said he appreciated that the defendant had acted innocently, but the regulations must be obeyed. A letter she wrote contained the kind of information that should not be sent overseas. It might result in a major disaster. The police stated that the excuse made was that, if there were offending passages, they should be taken out by the censor or the letters should be returned, but it was physically impos;sible for the censors to read every letter, Therefore it was most necessary for writers to see that they did not commit breaches. The magistrate also said that the onus was upon the writer to see that they did not offend.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1942, Page 4
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158WOMAN FINED Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1942, Page 4
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