WHERE’S THE CENSOR?

Gisborne Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9575, 28 July 1923, Page 5

WHERE’S THE CENSOR?

THE OF ROST OFFICE. FOR DISSEMINATING UNDJ/ STR A RLE LITER ATURE. GERMAN -WORKS OF ART”? \ gentleman of high commercial standing in Wellington handed .to a N.Z. Times reporter the contents of a letter which he had just received through the post from Germany. The letter bore a stamp for 300 marks! The contents were two small reprints ol photographs, each of a woman in a nude state, and the sender offered: ‘•Send me. good stamps or unstamped stamps of the value of ..... • Hid I will send you 24 splendid works or art cauls in sepia-photo-bromsilyer after original photographs.” The prints are of a type calculated to appeal to people of a sensuous character. and the gentleman who received these specimens stated that this was about the fourth letter of the kind lie had received in the last montn. One gentleman who saw the prints remarked that only a few months ago there were some differences of opinion because the Customs authoiiLcs had debarred Ettio Rout’s book, ; -Safe Marriage” from being placed j pale in the Dominion, but unscru- : pulons dealers in Germany appeared I to have found a'way of defeating the | vigilance of the authorities, and in i addition were making a department of i the Government the means of clistri- ; be turn. | The matter is receiving tlie attention of the police authorities.