SOMETHING LEFT OUT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21715, 24 February 1936, Page 4

SOMETHING LEFT OUT

INTEBESTING OMISSION FROM GAZETTE [THE PRESS Special Service,] WELLINGTON, February 22. If there should be any truth in the Stale departmental .saying that the best new* in the New Zealand* Gazette every Thursday are the things left out, then it can be claimed that something like a.record has-been achieved this week. The most "interesting item, in the current publication is a square of black, representing a printer's blanket to hide something that either should not have, been published or nothing worth printing. The "Great Blot" has been rolled in on page 321, which incidentally fol-! lows page 218, and appears, perhaps not ominously, over the sedate and immaculate" return by the Reserve Bank at New Zealand. , In some copies the obliteration is a perfect black blank, but on the same mourning page in others the smothered gho*t of what was once a substantial schedule of customs information showaxaintly, tdgether with the tail of a red pencil mark denoting an official ban.

The blank referred to in the message appeared apparently in only the advance proofs supplied to the Wellington papers on the night of publication. It does not appear in the edition supplied to the public <