COUNTY AND PRESS
Sir, Mary 1. Otway’s fulsome praise of the efforts of your paper in bringing “light into the gloomy darkness” of County Council business, I think is disproportionate to facts. It is some fifteen years ago since the Kawhia “Rag” leased to function and it is about a year ago that your paper decided to have a resident reporter in Kawhia district. During the fifteen years that the Kawhia County Council transacted its business without the “freedom ray” of the press, especially your paper, no Belsan or Dassau camps sprung up furtively around the harbour.
Lets face facts, the Kawhia County Council, annoyed by a sub-leader in your paper, invoked its legal right and ordered all strangers out of its chambers. Your paper immediately started a controversy—the life-blood of any paper—and has been kept up ever since. I respectfully submit that your paper is not one iota interested in the deprivation of liberty and freedom of the ratepayers and the residents of Kawhia, but rather in the denial of access to your reporter. Last, but not least, I wish to make it quite clear, that I favour a reporter of anj' paper, attending public meetings.—l am, etc., L. A. CARNACHAN
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7077, 6 July 1949, Page 6
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