BACK-DATED MAGAZINES.
We must legislate in the same manner as the British Government by imposing a prohibitive dumping duty on all imported backdated magazines of the sex and gangster type. Not merely from the commercial standpoint that they are , injurious to trade, but from the moral aspect. This flooding of our market with magazines whose stories consist of lust, murder and violence has already played a considerable part in the increase in juvenile crime. Ask any social worker of their experience in this matter amongst young offenders; one. case there was where a youth who made a set of house-breaking instruments gained his knowledge from a gangster magazine. KUBY E. WATSON.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 September 1934, Page 6
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111BACK-DATED MAGAZINES. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 September 1934, Page 6
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