“IMPERTINENT INTERFERENCE”
DRASTIC ACTION BY THE AUTHORITIES. [BY THLEOBAPH —PUB. PBESB ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE. December 5. The postal authorities apparently under directions from Wellington, held up the weekly and daily newspapers posted last week'for mails closing at six' o clock yesterday, which would have been delivered by inland mails within three' days of the election. This_ was done because they contained advertisements containing instructions how to vote. \. NEWSPAPER’S PROTEST. DUNEDIN, This Day. “Impertinent interference” is the term applied by the Dunedin Star to the Gisborne postal authorities, who held up the newspapers posted last week because they contain advertisements instructing electc.rs how to vote. It points out that section 157 of the Legislature Act implies that legal proceedings must be instituted and that the burden of proving an offence thereunder lies qn the Crown. It adds: “The sooner that Sir Joseph Ward interferes and prevents his departmental officers from making such stupid blunders the better,” ,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1911, Page 5
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