CENSORING LITERATURE.
There were two things about the previous otherwise sound and presumably impartial system ; of censorship which gave rise to a certain amount of openly expressed dissatisfaction and suspicion. The identity of the censor was veiled in secrecy, and his decisions were arbitrary. The board Mr Stewart has now appointed completely makes it a matter of little consequence whether the identity of the censor is disclosed or not. The personnel of the board has been so c’arefiflly choserTas to justify the fullest public confidence in the board’s ability and impartiality. “Better be sure than sorry” is evidently the Minister’s maxim, for he has chosen to strengthen the machinery required to check the stream of polluted literature at its source. That this is the policy of wisdom we believe will be conceded by the great majority of the citizens of the Dominion who have been endowed with a new privilege and a new responsibility.—Wanganui Chronicle.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1425, 10 November 1923, Page 6
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