THIRD EDITION POSTAL ENQUIRY
WHY CENSORSHIP ESTABLISHED
f«I TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
At the Postal Enquiry to-day the Rev. Howard Elliott stated that certain letters were posted to test the censorship. They were written at his dictation and signed with fictitious names.
Mr. J. W. Salmon, Solicitor-General, in his evidence, said that at the end of 1916 and the beginning of 1917 the attention of the authorities was called on more tliaii one occasion to the activities of the Committee of Vigilance and of the Rev. Howard Elliott. The first occpjion was When a, letter was received by the Attorney-General enclosing a copy of a circular headed : "Rome's Hideous Guilt in the European Carnage." He received no instructions, but considered the matter and came to the conclusion that the pamphlet was a mischievous publication, and that the Protestant Political Association, should not be allowed unrestricted use of the Post Office for circulating it. He advised that a censorship be set up on Post Box 912. He admitted that the censor was under the control of the New Zealand Government.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1917, Page 8
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180THIRD EDITION POSTAL ENQUIRY Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1917, Page 8
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