PETER AND PAUL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1943, Page 3

PETER AND PAUL

Last year, when Mr S. G. Holland, then Minister of War Expenditure, set up a committee, which was to include a Labour M.P. and a trades union representative, to exercise closer supervision over war expenditure, his statement to the Press, announcing the setting up of the committee, was held up by the censor, although previously submitted to the Prime Minister and act-ing-Prime Minister. Not a line in the statement related to war secrets. The censor held it up because, in his view, the setting up of the committee implied that methods up to date had been lax. They are still lax, as the strong condemnation of the Auditor-General, in his 1943 report, clearly revealed. Not only was Mr Holland’s judgment vindicated, but the censorship was revealed as a political instrument, wielded by a former President of the Labour Party, Mr J. T. Paul, who was appointed in accordance with the recognised Labour principle of reserving e such appointments for its own followers, regardless of whether or not men with better qualifications might be found elsewhere. Do not permit these things to continue. Vote National.