BANNED BOOKS
CONFISCATION FROM LIBRARY STRONG PROTESTS (Rec. 1-2.10 p.m.) - CANBERRA, April 16. The Acting Prime Minister, Mr :Forde, will confer with the Acting Minister of Customs, Mr Dedman, on complaints that lists of banned books are not made available by the Customs Department. This follows the strong reaction by booksellers, librarians, and the Press after the confiscation last week of three books from a Double Bay library. A section of the Customs Act lays down that prohibited imports are to be forfeited, except such as are brought in by persons ignorant of the prohibitions. Under New South Wales law a constable can break into a private home and remove a book on a complaint that the occupier holds an obscene book for gain.
Advice has been received locally that the Gloster Meteor jet-propelled aircraft, which was expected to reach Dunedin this week, has been delayed, and it will not now reach here until early in May.
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Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 6
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157BANNED BOOKS Evening Star, Issue 25769, 16 April 1946, Page 6
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