CENSORSHIP OF LETTERS
MR FRASER EXPLAINS PROCEDURE EXPRESSIONS OF POLITICAL OPINION (pafeSß ASSOCIATION tELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, February 4. The Hon. P. Fraser - (DeputyPrime Minister) stated to-night after reading a complaint regarding the censorship Of private letters posted in New Zealand for overseas that he had made immediate inquiry from the Controller of Censorship, who said Inter alia: “Political Opinions for or against the Government are of no interest tb the censorship. I desire to say that the censorship is being eon- . ducted as far as practicable in accordance with the British Government’s rules, ahd that the Government haS not directed me at any stage to have references to political affairs eliminated from cables or letters.” Mr Fraser stated definitely that ho instructions had’ been given by the • Government about censorship of expressions of political Opinions in letters, nor could he imagine circumstances in which any such action could be justified. In fact such extreme and unwarranted interference Would be intolerable perversion Of the intention of the censorship, and if it had occurred it Was entirely opposed to the wishes and directions of the Government,
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22936, 5 February 1940, Page 6
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