Records Censored In
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Tahiti
From Our Own Correspondent.
Papeete, June 29.
A GOVERNMENT notice of interest to merchants doing business with French Oceania appeared in the “Journal Officiel” of the Colony on May 16. According to this announcement the censorship hitherto
applying- to cinematograph films is now extended to cover the importation, cir culation, reproduction, and sale of vocal phonograph records. Such records must now be passed by the Commission of Censors appointed for the purpose.
It is understood that this measure has become necessary to prevent the dissemi nation of subversive propaganda, for which purpose phonograph records are being used in Europe and elsewhere.
Mrs. Gerald Hogan, wife of Major Hogan, Crown Law Officer of New Guinea, is returning to Rabaul, after a holiday spent with her sister. Mrs. H. W. Thomp son, of “The Firs,” Dundas, Sydney.