BUSINESS LETTER

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1942, Page 3

BUSINESS LETTER

Breach of Censorship SYDNEY PROSECUTION.

(Rec. 11.55). SYDNEY, June 2. The copy of a letter, which, it was stated, had been passed by the Censors in New Zealand and in Austra- 1 lia was the subject of a prosecution to-day under the National Security Regulations in the Sydney Police Court. J. Henr v Jowett, an employee of James Buchanan and Company, of Sydney, was, proceeded against on a charge of having communicated information likely to prejudice the prosecution of the war. It was alleged that the copy of a letter from the firm’s New Zealand Branch, containing reference to the location of New Zealand troops, had been forwarded, in the ordinary course .of business, to the firm’s head office in Glasgow. This information it was stated, had not been deleted from the original letter by the two censors. 1

The Magistrate said that, appar* ently, after the original letter had been through the censors’ hands, it was not realised that it was a breach of the National Security Regulations to send a copy of the letter to Glasgow. The defendant was ordered to enter into a twenty pound recognisance to observe the Regulations in future.