Concern about book
Sir, — I have seen a copy of “Down Under the Plum Trees,” which came before the Indecent Publications Tribunal and incredulously note that Mr Robin Duff, a teacher from Burnside High School, “believed the book would be a valuable reference and resource for classroom teaching at high schools and he would be happy to use it in appropriate courses.” The majority of people wish to see stable marriages and sound family life promoted in New Zealand, not filthy gutter language and pornographic pictures encouraging perversion and promiscuity. For anyone to even suggest this book was suitable for schools indicates their unsuitability to handle this topic at all. The Department of Education should be alarmed at Mr Duff’s statement, and all parents need to press urgently for a regulation to restrict the use of “sex instruction” material in classroom situations. — Yours, etc., J. E. VINEY. Secretary. Concerned Parents’ Association. February 23, 1977.
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