CENSORSHIP IN SAMOA.
ONLY ONE MESSAGE STOPPED. POSITION OFFICIALLY STATED. [BT TELEGRArH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Thursday. The Prime Minister, Sir .Joseph Ward, made available for publication to-day the following communication, received yesterday from the Administrator of Western Samoa, Mr. S. S. Allen:— "In perusing the newspapers received from New Zealand by the mail to-day, I note that nearly all of them emphasise the absence of news from Samoa, and blame tho censorship regulations. The impression that I am preventing news being sent to the newspapers is guite erroneous. Since the riot on December 28 last I have refused transmission of one radio message only, and every other message has been transmitted without any portion being excised, or any interference or delay whatever, whether its contents were true or not. "Any absence ol news other than official matter is therefore the fault of the newspapers themselves, or their correspondents."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20495, 21 February 1930, Page 12
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