AUCKLAND POST OFFICE.
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. [Pr.t: Pi'RSf Association.] AUCKLAND. August IS. At the poui! inquiry the Rev Howard Eiiiot. stated thu:. certain letters po.-uc<j lo test ihn censorship wero wriuer. ••;; ?.:s die no a and signed wivii fictitious names. Br A. iu. Sulmr-nd. Solicitor General, stated ihr.r. at the end of !!}.U*> and at, th" ' ■(■-,;':■ :•; v: . , !'\". ;hr : amotion ct the authorilir.s was called on more t/lail '•; ■• .. .".■-■•-) !-, t !; „ a ,-r,j VU i.-.; s ~T ' j, Commit».co of Vigilance and of the. Rev Howard Elliott. The first occasion was when a letter whs received by the ; Attorney-General, enclosing a copy of n circular hesded "Rome's Hideous Guilt in European Carnage. ,; He rej ceived no instructions, but considered j the matter, and came, to the conelu- : K'icn thn- the pamphlet was a mischiov- ; otis publication, and thai tlie pro tost | of a political association should not bo allowed the unrestricted use of the Post Office, for circularising the pamphlet, and advised that a censorship be set on Post Box 912. He admitted that tho_ censor was under the eontroi of the New Zealand Government,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12089, 18 August 1917, Page 9
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