REV. HOWARD ELLIOT'S CHARGES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17063, 16 August 1917, Page 5

REV. HOWARD ELLIOT'S CHARGES.

COMMISSION'S POWERS EXTENDED.

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Aug. 15., lhe powers of the commission set up tc^ inquire into certain charges against ofhcers of the Auckland Post Office have been extended to include power to inquire (a) Whether correspondence addressed to Post Office Bos 912 at AuckUnd has been corruptly or improperly suppressed or detained by the officers of the. Post Offioe; (b) on what grounds the Military Censorship has been established over the correspondence of the persons using the said Post Office box.

His Excellency's warrant proceeds: *'I do thereby further direct and declare that nothing in the' said warrant of July 25th, 1917. or in this present v/arrant shall so operate or be so construed as to authorise any inquiry into the .establishment, organisation, authority or practice of the system of military censorship existing in this Dominion during the present war, save so far as any such matters being relevant to the inquiry authorised by the said warrants may be voluntarily and with due authority disclosed by the officers of the said censorship in the course of that inquh-y, and save also the inquiry hereinbefore expressly authorised, as to the grounds on which such' military censorship has been established on the correspondence of the persons using the Post Office box aforesaid."