CORRUPTING LITERATURE
(To the Editor ol the Herald). Sir.—l quite agree with a statement made in your report of the recent burglary at the Cash Stores Hint "the manner of the entry and departure suggests the inspiration of a corrupting form of literature" upon the, apparently, juvenile burglars. Lately 1 have'noticed at least one local bookshop where 'huge piles of Ipw-lypij hack-dated American "crook'!' magazines are displayed. This literary garbage is sold at. a very low price, and is readily purchased by 'young boys. The magazines come into New Zealand free, from all duly, and of late years their numbers have, increased by tens of thousands. They are displayed and sold in preference to healthy local and -Australian publications by a certain type of trader. ' That American ''crook :vnd ciime" publications have a most undesirable moral effect upon young New Zealand, boys is undoubted. The marvel is that no serious effort is being made to check tin's unhealthy magazine menace, —Yours, etc., o.w.w.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 11
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