MR MONCUR CRITICISES CENSORSHIP
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. March 8. Advocating that the people of New Zealand should be taken more fully into the Government's confidence about certain matters affecting the war. Mr A. F. Moncur (Labour. Rotorua) stated in the House of Representatives this evening that on March 3 last year 15 flying-boats left Java fully-loaded with refugee women and children and they were all shot down by Japanese Zeros off Broome on the north-west coast of Australia. This information was not given to the people of New Zealand until five weeks ago. Personally he thought it should have been given immediately it happened, or not at all. Such delays in releasing news created suspicion among the people, who were apt to think something might be happening about which they were not being told. Mr Moncur also paid a tribute to New Zealand manufactures, stating that this country could produce goods equal to any in the world.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23891, 9 March 1943, Page 4
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