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N.Z. IMPORT RESTRICTION. WELLINGTON. January 4. The New Zealand centre of the P.E.N.; a world-wide organisation of writers, has sent to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Customs copies of resolution the centre 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 w'#ii uneasiness severe restrictions considered by the Government to be necessary* on the importation of books into New Zealand. Realising the difficulties of the Government, and believing that it shares our conviction that any measures that might tend to act as. a restraint on intellectual freedom are to be deplored, we trust that restrictions will not doubt 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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Grey River Argus, 5 January 1940, Page 5
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