(To the Editor.)

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1940, Page 6

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Your sub-leader in the "Evening Post" of Tuesday should have the attention, serious attention, and approval of all reasonable citizens and persons of good will. It is irritating and intolerable that the censorship of overseas - correspondence should be used either for party purposes or propaganda or for business advantage. A very large number of people who were not displeased to see a change of party in power and were determined to give the present Government a fair deal can, I think, hardly be satisfied with the Deputy Prime Minister's statement if by that reply he intends to let the matter rest where it is. The responsibility must be sheeted home to the delinquent. Incidentally, one is inclined to ask why all private correspondence from New Zealand must have the name and address of the sender. None of my private mail from England has the name and/or address of the sender on the outside of the envelope. That business firms have their names on correspondence from here is quite in order; they do so, war or no war. But private letters are on quite a different footing, and. to let everyone who handles one's private letters know who is the sender merely encourages idle prying and gossip, even when it does not do more direct harm and injury- It is to be hoped the "Evening Post" will see this matter to its satisfactory conclusion.—l am, etc., REASONABLE. Wellington, February 8.