TWO CHARGES DISMISSED
Alleged Importation Of Indecent Books (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Sept. 25. Two charges against John William Robertson (Mr I. A. Arthur) of importing indecent documents into New Zealand were dismissed today by Mr G. A. Nicholls, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill. The Magistrate said he had “considerable doubt” in his mind about Robertson’s dealings. “I am quite certain there is something you have not told the Court,” he said. It was alleged Robertson had imported a book from the Amster-dam-domiciled Olympia Press. Denying the charges, Robertson declared that the book—the two halves of which arrived in Invercargill on March 31 and April 18 last—had been unsolicited.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28701, 26 September 1958, Page 13
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