DOMINION NEWS
CENSORSHIP BREACH. P.A. HASTINGS, April 28. The seriousness of thoughtless talk and writing in time of war was' emphasised by Mr Miller, S.M., and De-tective-Sergeant . Campin, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Joyce Anderson, 21, married, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Censorship Regulations, in that, in a manner likely to prejudice the public safety, she placed on record by writing, information of movements of His Majesty’s Forces. It was admitted by the prosecution, that, in this case, the giving of a piece of information in a letter to her husband was purely a thoughtless act. As it was the first prosecution of the kind in the district, the S.M. imposed a fine of £l, with costs. Detective-Sergeant Campin said that defendant’s husband was on active service overseas, and defendant, writing in the usual way to her husband, included information about the movements of Forces. There was nothing sinister about her action, and it was purely thoughtlessness on her part.
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Grey River Argus, 29 April 1942, Page 1
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