CORRESPONDENTS' VEWS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 239, 9 October 1942, Page 2

CORRESPONDENTS' VEWS

THE CENSORSHIP * (To the Editor.) It was with great pleasure I read this column and the leader in the Star, and I do hope and pra> u;ct the citizen will do as I am doirr.:. write and thank you and offer constructive suggestions. (1) It is not a case of censorship of war news, it is political industrial and financial news, both in our internal and overseas .correspondence, even to listeni ipr m t 0 telephone conversation, jfj It is not a case of suspicion, it's pol.tive knowledge, and such is the ea.-e. r.y) j agree with all you say. <4) I suegest when your paper feels it advisable to publish such information you adopt the policy of submitting it to the censor—if he censors it just publish the headline and a blank space, with one word censored. Some of the fool things done would make a worm turn, or a cat laueh. Certain buildings have been ta£en over by . . . hush, hush: the Japs, might know if the citizen found out. All the people who continue to call at the buildings know, there are gentlemen posted at the doors, but it is all so "hush, hush." It's a criminal offence to write and tell the "home folk," but the 8.8.C. proclaim it. so does Mr. Nash. It's a criminal offence to have in your possession or smoke certain cigarettes—many of us do so. There is no punishment for mass breaches of the law, but individual cases are fined, imprisoned. taxed, ordered from this job to that with no appeal to the courts. CITIZEN.