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Mt Benger Mail, 27 October 1937, Page 2

Opposition to the proposal to give power boards arbitrary authority to remove trees interfering with power lines has been expressed at the Otago Electric Power Board’s meeting, and the Board is evidently in sympathy with other boards, for at Tuesday’s meeting it was learned that the electric supply authorities’ conference did not favour any enlargment of those powers beyond those possessed by other local bodies. “In many countries of Europe there is no well-informed body of public opinion because there is a State censorship of newspapers,” said Professor R. M. Algie, Professor of Law at Auckland University College, in a lecture under the auspices of the Workers’ Educational Association at Auckland recently. He said that public opinion must be allowed to develop, and that the newspapers, good or bad, must be free.