IMPORTATION OF BOOKS
# PROPOSED - RESTRICTIONS ' CAUSE CONCERN (PRESS A.SBOCIVHOW TEMQBAM.) ' WELLINGTON, January 4. The New Zealand centre of the P.E.N. Club, a world-wide organisation of has sent to the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) and the Minister for Customs (the i Hon. W. Nash) copies of a /resolution passed unanimously at a meeting called to consider the Government's proposed restriction on the importation of printed matter. The text follows: "The centre regards with uneasiness the severe restrictions considered by the Government to be necessary on the importation of books into New Zealand. Realising the difficulties' of the; Government, and believing that it shares -our conviction that any measures that might tend to act as a restraint on intellectual freedom are to be deplored, we trust that restrictions will not be applied'to the better class of cultural literature, scientific and educational books, and that the Govejrnment will ' take the first opportunity o£ relaxing them altogether."
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22910, 5 January 1940, Page 9
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