"LEGALLY INDECENT"
PICTURE OF "THE SLEEPING • VENUS." By Telegraph-Press Association. Auckland, June IS. Mr E. C. Cutten, S.JI., gave his xe--served decision to-day on the charge against Spensley Clarkson of eihibitinz in public au indecent picture. It is entitled "The Sleeping Venus, and is a. coloured print of a celebrated picture. The Magistrate held that the picture misht be a very beautiful work of art and quite proper m its place, but when exhibited in a shop window it would have a mischievous tendency. Itjras. therefore, legally indecent. Defend*nt was fined £o and costs. The fine was increased to .£6 to enable defendant to appeal.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3114, 19 June 1917, Page 4
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