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! SITUATION EXPLAINED. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) ; ' WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. In a statement, to-day, Hon. W. Nash said his attention had been drawn to a statement in the newspapers suggesting that cheap or pulp magazines were likely to be prohibited from importation. The Minister said no action of the kind had been contemplated by the Government. The importers of magazines, both new and pulp, had readily offered their cooperation in the effort of the Minister to check the importation of objectionable magazines which gave prominence to matters of sex, obscenity, horror, terror, cruelty, or crime. These publications were a source of harm to immature no decent-nnnd-ed person would regret their absence from the country. The great majority of, back-dated magazines, however, were entirely reputable, and no objection had been raised to them. The Minister stressed the tact that firms dealing with magazines had assured him that they were equally concerned to check the salo ol objectionable typos of magazine, and he was/ hopeful that, with their co-operation, no official action would bo required. /
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 225, 22 August 1938, Page 12
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