CENSORSHIP OF BOOKS
BOARD OF APPEAL SUPPORTED. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, October 19. Booksellers approve tho propos'd Board of Appeal in connection with the censorship of literature, as providing protection A representative of hitcombe and Tombs stated that booksellers had been allowed to sell Ettie Rout’s “Safe Marriage” at their own risk, being liable to prosecution at any time. They had to ock such books for students who increasingly taught sex problems. Presumably it would be part of the Appeal Board’s functio ' to say whether such )»ooks should be *• T only to students and nurse**. A leaning medical man stated that the gentw ral reading of books pretending to teaching in sex matters bad A pern** cioiis effect on the young.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 4
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