AUSTRALIAN NOVEL

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28801, 23 January 1959, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN NOVEL

N 7 failing To Be Contested |‘‘K, 2 f / flfow Zealand FraM. Mtotetewp Kgi ' - ■ SYDNEY, January 22. The New Zealand justice Department has notified ft Sydney publishing company that the Ausbook ..“You Can’t See Round . Corners” would hi” considered Indecent in the Dominion. - book won the author. Jon Cteary.the £lOOO second prize in the “Sydney Morning Herald” HMI best Australian novel coinpetition. . The’ department said the book uqdulp emphasised “matters of crime and . sex.” The' - bpbliahing firm (Horwitz ■s*>- jßmdapd. . Tbefinn’snMUiaglng -director Mr S. D. I. Horwitx) said the : dtatributori had MfiiMd, to handle issue. ■ “We will ask the New Zealand Minister of Justice (Mr Mason) if he intends to stand by the decision of his department,” he said. "If .he does so we will sell the book, ourselves, and force the question into Court” Jon. Cleary said last night! “I am surprised. The book is about a young Paddington S.P. bookmaker,' who deserts the Army to become a criminal. “To my knowledge the book . was circulating 10 years ago in hard-eover editions in New Zealand and was never banned. Either New Zealand has gone more moral in that time, or the book has become more immoral. “So tar it has sold 150,000 copies in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the United States, and France.'.’ • ,