New Zealander Deplores Paper "Austerity” Return in Britain
Reed. 9.3(1 p.m. London, illy .lb Sir Cecil Leys, chairman of the newsprint committee of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of New Zealand, in a letter to the “Daily Telegraph,” says: “When I came to England I hoped to see the national dailies increased to a minimum of eight pages. If anyone had suggested
• I here was a danger of the return • of the austerity of the war’s worst ! years 1 would have regarded it i as the poorest, kind of joke intended to elongate the limb ot ar I overseas innocent. i “In New Zealand newsprint is still rationed, but it is largely rationing by the source o” supply Canada. Newsprint >s governed at the source and r.T'l'.ier >.tr;lr»
n I lia nor New Zealand is able to it | get tonnage io cover the licences il • their respective Governments i granted them for 1947. 1> I “It may still not be too late for the Government to avoid what I is honestly believe would be ret- garded, not only now but in the G future, as one of their really bad d blunders.” ■J-
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 July 1947, Page 5
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