YOUNG WOMAN FINED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15076, 23 June 1942, Page 3

YOUNG WOMAN FINED

CENSORSHIP BREACH Electric Telegraph—Press Association NAPIER, June 22. A young woman, Florence Ewan, aged 19, was fined £2 by Mr Miller, IS.M., in the Magistrates’ Court today, for committing a breach of tho censorship regulations. Defendant gave information concerning shipping in a letter written to a friend. For defendant, Mr V. J. Langley submitted it was a general though erroneous impression that the censor deleted information which the authorities considered should not be circulated. His client, ho said, was an absolutely loyal subject, and had committed th© offence in ignorance. Sho wis genuinely distressed at the proceedings. In imposing the penalty, the magistrate said that if persons came to him with the excuse that they thought tho censor was responsible for suppressing all dangerous information, ho would impose a heavier fine, as this would clearly, show that the defendants wer© aware of their wrong. “In this case it is carelessness,” lie added, “but no information about shipping should ever be divulged.”