INDECENT BOOKS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 28 May 1914, Page 4

INDECENT BOOKS.

AT-TOVEr. POIST. (By-Telegraph.—SpeelalMo "StaTi'') C_____S_____n__C__; Tne___y. At' the Magistrate's Court tifc morning, before Mr. T. A. B. Baitey, S__. Stanley (Robinson, a bookseller, •_»- <**rged with __rviu» _old _________ publications, toAvit. 19je -"'Adventure* of .'John Johns" and "6_pp__." Mr. B_M__*. "W-to appeared for the defendant, «•** that *• Sappho" was well knosm .M » iKYench clasmc, and had ibeezt in cireniation for over twenty yews, Tkere- w no question as to its s»l«s bat oinly a»to th e -ureaning of section 2of the- I_b decent Publication,. Act. It seamed to. him .that tho words ''indecent dO(BD__Br djd not include tha content* of a book, bnt to its appea.r_.iioe., and u_lc_b il *aa shown that there was something iaieccnt attached to the .book, sash ■» » placard or covering which was eabSatan the book did not eome-andwEbafc i/arQw oi tho Act, Mr. Baney, said 3i_> was sa___J___ Oa. . Che Act was intended to apply *o> «__* wa*. actually printed in a book. oa. fendant would be fined £10 _a the -*J*__i| Johns'' ehargs, as lie had knaTO __«_»- proaeentlon. regarding tha 4»ok watt pending, A nominal penalty el W wotdd ba imponed on the "BtofcO c-uuge. bo ii b_____» _* theqg-t. fl*JKMfe ■w»a. any better thaa * Jota- Soasat?. vestheesiiEE) thn tw» had %■*» f ran? *___. the same gain.