FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
USE OF CENSORSHIP “Only editors of newspapers know the extent to which the freedom of the press is being interfered with in New Zealand,” said Mr. F. W. Doidge (National—Tauranga) in the House of Representatives. On several occasions, he said, the House had discussed the Government’s excessive use of its powers of censorship. Mr. Doidge said that in New Zealand there was no freedom on the radio. The Ministry had the monopoly. There was no freedom of speech even tor members of Parliament, because the censor stepped in and said what could and what could not be said. “The Prime Minister knows he cannot have national unity unless he has national confidence. If you rob the press of. its freedom, you Will never get confidence in the Government,” he added. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, in reply, claimed that there was no country in the world where the press was more free than in New Zealand. ..
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20823, 30 June 1942, Page 5
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