PUBLISHER FINED.
INDECENT ADVERTISEMENT.
Keserved jurlgir ent was delivered by M'V F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday in the case in which Arthur Cleave, publisher, of Auckland, was charged with having caused to be printed on Apiil 14 an indecent docuniiint. the Now Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review, containing an advert'siiment for contraceptives. ■lhe magistrate, in giving his decision, saiij the advertisement clearly came witbin thiji meaning of section 6 of the Indecent Publications Act, 1910, under which the prosecution had been made. "Counsel the defence referred to the modern arguments about birth control, and so on ' but this section of the Act still stjinds," continued the magistrate. '"Unfortunately, there nre other advertisements a similar kind in some papers and it evident that they are getting a little stock." ■
•la imposing a fine of £lo.and costs, the ro.igiatrate remarked that in the. event of futlnre prosecution* more substantial penalties would have; to be inflicted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21223, 1 July 1932, Page 15
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