LETTERS TO U.S.A.
RESTRICTION LIFTED
People in New Zealand are now permitted >to write to the relations and friends of United States servicemen who have been in the Dominion, provided the serviceman has left the country. There is still a prohibition on communications to relatives of American servicemen who are in New Zealand.
In announcing this today, the United States censorship authorities pointed out that civilian correspondence to overseas addresses would, of course, be Subject to the ordinary postal censorship in New Zealand, and there should be no mention of military or naval units or movements.
New Zealanders who wish to write to the relations of American servicemen who are in New Zealand may do so by giving their letters to the serviceman concerned. He hands it to his own.service censor and it is then dispatched. In such letters no mention of New Zealand is allowed.
There is, of course, no prohibition against the writing of letters from New Zealand to American servicemen who have left the country. In such cases the ordinary service address should be used.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 114, 10 November 1943, Page 6
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