Censorship Irritates
p. 69 · Read in the full issue
New Guinea
From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, April 9.
ON every hand, one hears complaints about the censorship established between Australia and New Guinea, and one wonders, when one sees some of the downright foolishness of the censor’s department, if no common-sense or initiative can be applied to this work.
Not only does censoring considerably delay the delivery of mail matter; but, since its inception, the number of let ters which have not reached their des tination at all has considerably increased.
An example of censorship efficiency was in evidence the other day, when one resident, on opening a circular, found two sheets of a letter written by someone in Australia to a relative in Scotland!
During the last war the troops were able to obtain special “green” envelopes, specially franked by their company
officers, and which were—more or less — exempt from censorship. Could not a similar method be adopted in this Ter ritory, and reputable citizens obtain a franking of their correspondence before it is mailed for Australia?
Even the New Guinea public may be stirred from its lethargy when it comes to such a pass that its private corre spondence (even in war-time) is need lessly interfered with and delayed.