Censorship
Sir, —Your surmise that the Minister of Justice has been moved to prod the bureaucratic inefficiency of the Customs Department may well be right. Indeed, any other'imputation would appear as duplicity, for I do recall that, reporting the second reading of the Indecent Publications Bill, you quoted Mr Hanan as saying:. “The less the Customs, and other- departments, have to do with decisions on the decency of publications the'better, and I believe the creation of the tribunal will be a most important reform in this respect.” Why the Comptroller of Customs persists in claiming obligations that he has shown time and again he cannot fulfil reasonably can he explained only in terms of bureaucracy. Customs officers cannot be expected to be knpwledgeable about books, as more than 20,000 ate published each year.—Yours, etc., GORDON TAIT. June 28, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30479, 29 June 1964, Page 12
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