BANNED IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 24

BANNED IN AUSTRALIA

From Sydney it is reported that the salo of Mr. Norman.- Lindsay's new novel, "The Cautious Amorist," has been prohibited. This is the second of Mr. Lindsay's novels to bo censored in Australia. The first was "Rodheap," a study of life iv a Victorian mining township. Tho Minister ' for Customs (Lieutenant-Colonel White) announced on May 25 that decisions made by the recently appointed censorship committee ,would not bo mado public Tho information that Mr. Lindsay's new book had been prohibited was obtained from booksellers in Sydney. A leading bookseller said that booksellers had never been able to obtain access to the list of censored books, and they frequently discovered that they were selling „ prohibited volumes without knowing it. In some cases expensive sets of books were taken possession of by Customs officers after they had been for months on tho shelves. Presumably they were destroyed. Tho bookseller who had paid for them had no compensation, and had no means of discovering before ho ordered them that they were on tho Customs Department's prohibited list. Tho system was irksomo and expensive to booksellers.

Fifteen hundred copies of Dr. Samuel Angus's took, «'Truth and Tradition," wore sold on the day of publication, report the publishers, Angus and Kobcrtson, of Sydney. They add that this is a record foi- a -theological book published in Australia.