PUBLIC MORALE.
NEWSPRINT RATIONING. NEW SOUTH WALES WARNING. SYDNEY, July 12. Newsprint rationing, as a disguised form of suppressing tlio Press, and the censorship were attacked by the Premier (Air AlcKell) at a luncheon at the Journalists’ Club, of which Air AlcKell and six of the present N.S.AV. Cabinet are members. “Both the Press and members of Parliament must see that even in wartime their fundamental right to express their opinions is not curtailed to the extent that some people would like to curtail it,” lie said. “The Press and Parliament have a duty to the public to sec that they know the facts about administration. Where, mistakes arc being made it is necessary that they should be exposed to get the best out of the nation. “We are told that rationing is needed to save dollar exchange. But, rationing can be used as a kind of t censorship by cutting down the space in which the papers could tell people what is going on. If it is carried to the extreme, our Press to a largo extent will be eliminated. The public would then have to rely on rumour, and the morale of the people would be destroyed. So, in considering the question of dollar exchange we have to consider the much larger question of preserving public morale.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 23 July 1941, Page 8
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