NO CENSORSHIP.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1922, Page 5

NO CENSORSHIP.

POSmON oT^AMOA TIMES. AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION. !" ani"^^^^-/he Ftf^. newspapers, alfecinS+w S^V^and iand Oovernmenf ftl^at^ the Ne«' Zeamatter printed^ fk eSed control over commeniJupo^Jfe^^ Times, was Minister of gSiSj ** by the _ EAP.ALe* Affairs, the Hon. te^ #bje& to TSB^;?^^ Minis- ' statement publish^ Hwrt->* and byoneortr?^ the .Fiji Times , Papersy Tq^l*™ W zSnd control fX 6^ °f *h« , s sts^^sr^ auf Wh ni s^ly 2eal-d i-^4'^ "dit« Ifi.o repL y toy,urs of yesterday's date, there has not been ( a single article iinii^' 8 *¥*>■ Censored l»y ■«»« Ad! (18 months) m which I have been editor of the Samoa Times. The censorship, of dnr.£ a,?£ a T^nes t^t-was instituted weplT *£_. Wr r r riod was Hfted few. cf a|^ r * became editor of-the wSf T« meS- J he Administration Cf \\ estern Samoa does not exercise direction or control over me as editor, .nor over the conduct of the paner. The statement of the Fiji Time|-(that- I must abide by the official decisions as to what should not be published") is * pointless, for I have had no official decisions put upon me.' o aThe statement of the editor of the Samoa Times," added Mr. Lee "clearly shows that the paper enjoys the samehberty m the selection of matter it prints as .any other journal, and I hopo nis statement will prevent mis-state-ments being made in the future about the paper."