ADJUDGED OBSCENE
ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN NOVEL
RETAIL FIRMS FINED ADELAIDE, July 9. Ruling that the Australian novel “ Love Me, Sailor,” by Robert S. Close, was an obscene publication, a magistrate fined each of three city firms £5 and costs for selling copies. The Crown Prosecutor described the book as a “ compound of obscenity, brutality and horror ”
Counsel for the defendant said that it was strange that the firm selling the book could be found guilty of an offence while the writer and the publishers could escape c cot free.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26200, 10 July 1946, Page 5
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