INDECENT ASHTRAYS
SJML’s Ruling In Test Case fNZ. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Sept. 1. The ashtrays had no pretention to any literary or artistic merit whatsoever. They would, in his view, have a tendency to deprave or corrupt young persons, said Mr R. D. Jamieson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington today. He was delivering a decision following last week’s hearing of four charges of exhibiting and selling indecent documents,. ashtrays, preferred against a Courtenay place hairdresser and tobacconist, Archibald Kenneth Duncan, who pleaded not guilty to all four charges. The Magistrate said he had been told by the prosecution that the charge had been brought as a test case and that similar ashtrays had been exhibited for sale bv other retailers in Wellingtion, He convicted Duncan on each charge and fined him £lO on the first charge and discharged him on the other three.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29608, 2 September 1961, Page 13
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