THE CENSOR AGAIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10120, 30 October 1917, Page 2

THE CENSOR AGAIN.

(Psb Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Dot. 29. The Brett Printing and Publishing Co::) ikuiv was charged at the Poliee Court Urn on September 21, without the written win sent of a military authority, it publiDiei in the Auckland Star a statement as to th whereabouts of a. sea-going ship, not ex elusivelv engaged in the coastal trarle n New Zealand. The vessel referred to was t motor launch that arrived at Aitutaki am the Cook Islands on August 31. Mr Mays, for the Crown, contended tha the launch in question was a sea-going ve f .Tames Percy Ridings, collector of Cm toms and reporting officer to the Naval Dr parturient, said a Star reporter called upoi him for information regarding tho_ launch and he warned the reporter that no infonna tion should be published until it was sub niitted to the authorities. Mr McVoagh. for the defendants, sub niitted that the scope of the regulation related, not to such a vessel as a launch, bu to larger vessels. Counsel handed in a cop,' of the proclamation of the Governor o Tahiti, warning shipping of danger in tin Pacific. , ■ 31 r V\ . Leys, editor and director of tie Star, said uhen l,e received the report le ennsidered it did not come within the regu hit ions. Decision was reserved.