CENSORSHIP ENQUIRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 21, 18 August 1917, Page 2

CENSORSHIP ENQUIRY.

INTERESTING DISCLOSURES. Per Pi es s Association. Auckland, August 18. At the postal enquiry, Rev. Elliott stated that certain letters posted to test the censorship were written at his dictation and signed with fictitious names. Mr J. W. Salmon, Solicitor-General, gave evidence that at the end of 191 G and the beginning of 1917 the attention of the authorities was called on more than one occasion to the activities of the Committee of Vigilance and of the Rev. Howard Elliott. The first occasion was when a letter was received by the Attorney-General enclosing the copy of a circular headed “Rome’s Hideous Guilt in tin* European Carnage.” He had received no instructions hut he considered the matter and came to the conclusion that the pamphlet was a mischevions publication and that the Protestant Political Association should not he allowed unrestricted use cf the Post Office for circulating the pamp'het. He advised that a censorship he set up on Post Box 912. He admitted that the censor was under Hie control of the New Zealand Government.