CARVING SEIZED
Work Held To Be Obscene (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, March 27. Sydney vice squad police today seized a 30in carved native statue from a city shop, and charged a doctor with having had in his possession “an obscene representation apparently for sale.” Dr. Bernard Lake, of Northbridge, a surgeon and member of the Royal College of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, was alleged to be proprietor of the shop. The Magistrate (Mr F. M. Murphy) ordered that a summons be issued for Dr. Lake to show why the statue should not be destroyed. He remanded the doctor on £2O bail. Mr M. Hilberry, for Dr. Lake, said evidence would be called to show the carving was one of genuine artistic merit, without any obscene context. The hearing wall resume on April 3.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30093, 29 March 1963, Page 5
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