BOOKSELLERS WARNED.
MAGAZINE RULED INDECENT. STORE MANAGER FINED £5. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] "WAXGANUI, Friday. Tho manager of a department store in Wanganui, George Melville Strathmore, was fined £5 by Mr. Salmon, S.M., for having an indecent document in his possession for sale, namely, a magazine, "Gangster Stories." The prosecution was authorised by tho I Solicitor-General. The magistrate said he had no doubt j that in the hands of young and impros- j sionable peoplo and the less intelligent j section tho tendency of the publication j would be to deprave and corrupt minds. , He. accepted it as a fact that defendant and his firm were ignorant of the i nature and contents of (lie publication, i The. offence, therefore, was not com- j mil ted wilfully. Porno penalty was j necessary as a warning to booksellers to j exercise more care in the supervision of! ! publications for salo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 12
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