APPEAL BY WRITERS
EASE RESTRICTIONS BOOK IMPORTATIONS CULTURAL LITERATURE (L’er Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The New Zealand centre of P.E.N.. the world-wide organisation of writers, has sent to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, and the Minister of Customs, the Hon. W. Nash, copies of a resolution passed unanimously at a meeting' called to consider the Government’s proposed restrictions on the importation of printed matter. The text is as follows: — “The centre regards with uneasiness the severe restrictions considered by the Government to be necessary on the importation of boo Its into New Zealand. Realising the difficulties of the Government, and believing it shares our conviction that any measures that, might tend to act as a restraint on intellectual freedom are to be deplored, we trust the restrictions will not be applied to the better class of cultural literature, scientific and educational books, and that the Government will take the first opportunity of relaxing them altogether.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20137, 5 January 1940, Page 4
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