RESTRICTION ON NEWS FOR THE PRESS SEEN
(P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 17. “The finding-'of the press inquiry into the Kaka air crash makes us think seriously about the relations of the press with the Government and the public. I do not think that the freedom of the press is menaced at the present time, but I see growing up a restriction on the freedom of giving information to the press,” said the president of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association (Mr R. D. Horton) tonight, when addressing the association’s annual meeting at New Plymouth. Mr Horton said that members of the Government and Governmental officers were representatives of the public, and the public had the right to know the facts from them. By custom, that right had been delegated to the press. “We have got to keep before us the fact that freedom of access to information is the bedrock of our democracy,” he added.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1949, Page 7
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