Strippers Guilty

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31770, 29 August 1968, Page 20

Strippers Guilty

(N Z. Press Association)

WELLINGTON, Aug. 28. In the Wellington Magistrate’s Court today Mr D. J. Sullivan, S.M., found four strippers and a striptease club proprietor all guilty of presenting an indecent performance at the Club Exotique on June 7. The Magistrate remanded all five to September 4 for probation reports and sentence. Bail was allowed.

Emanuel Papadopoulos, aged 44, the club owner, and the dancers, Wendy Barbara Harding, aged 19, Nawai Hemopo, aged 18, Lois Colleen De Cosse, aged 24, and Myra Diane Anihana, aged 18,

all pleaded not guilty to a charge that they presented an indecent performance. In sumnfing up, the Magistrate said that if a woman appeared nude on stage in the presence of male patrons it might be at the very best immodest but not obscene. If a dancer directed the audience’s attention at a particular part of her body—the part used for sexual intercourse—that would be obscene.

The Magistrate found that Miss Harding, by certain acts directed attention at her private parts, as had Miss De Cosse, and Miss Anihana. “Those three deliberately drew attention to that member of their body,” he said.