AN EXPLANATION
DELAY IN REPORTS QUESTION OF CENSORSHIP We have often been held blameworthy and accused of being unobservant, by our readers, when they fail to read in our columns the arrival and departure of local men from overseas. We would like to dispell any impression that this oversight is due to the present chronic staff shortage and to point out that the press throughout the Dominion is subjected to rigid censorship. In many cases editors are placed on their honour to divulge no movement of troops or ships, by placing welcomes home and farewells upon records, until a fairly safe period has elapsed after the event has passed. The Gazette is therefore compelled to exercise the utmost care in this respect, for it is considered far more dangerous to permit the recording of such events in black and white, than to allow it to travel, perhaps to the same extent, by word of mouth.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3159, 19 August 1942, Page 5
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155AN EXPLANATION Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3159, 19 August 1942, Page 5
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