CENSORSHIP BREACH.
LETTER POSTED IN; SYDNEY.
. AUCKLAND, May 24. For a breach of the censorship, publicity and emergency regulations by getting a friend to post a letter in Sydney, Herbert Walter Jagusch, an Auckland business mapi, Avas fined £-10 and ordered to pay costs when charged on summons in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. ’ T'he lettejr Avas addressed to a business firm in Toronto, Canada. The police said it was a deliberate attempt to defeat the import restrictions, also to evade censorship. Counsel for the defence said that Jaguseh had no previous convictions. He Avas extremely sorry for the offence. Ho had no: reason to think he would evade the censor in Australia. The letter was opened by tho censor in Sydney. . “The whole letter suggests a.deliberate attempt to evade tire restrictions,” said Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M. “I hope this fine Avill be a Avarning to otheirs.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 194, 25 May 1940, Page 2
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