FREEDOM OF PRESS.
INTERFERENCE RESENTED. SERVICE TO PUBLIC. “I wonder if you realise what service you get from the Press of this country, what power it has, and how it executes it.” stated Mr H. F. Toogood, of Wellington, at a National Party meeting held in the Empire Hall last evening. “The Press of New Zealand gives you the fullest news, the most careful criticisms, and is free of the objectionable features in the Press of other parts of the world. Our Press is clean, even if perhaps a little biassed towards one side or the other, but its columns are always open to political utterances by either side. “One of our greatest safeguards is the freedom of the Press,”- added Mr Toogood, “but Mr Savage says that he is going to punch them’ on the nose. He cannot stand criticism, and Ills supporters want to block it. They want to compel you to listen to their side only. The freedom of the Press means much to us. They intend to gag us as they get more dictatorial. “Bolshevism,” interposed a voice when Mr Toogood said that. suggestions had been made of bringing pressure to bear on typographical employees who printed criticisms of the Government. “They are preparing for the dictatorship,” said Mr Toogood, “but a thousand men will arise where there was one before if they attack the freedom of the Press in this country.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 11, 10 December 1937, Page 2
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