READERS OF BOOKS
HIGHEST PER CAPITA AVERAGE. By T«lrgr»i>h.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The sixth annual conference of the Hew Zealand Retail Booksellers’ Association opened to-day, the president, Mr. H. 0. South, presiding. A wlecome to the delegatee was extended on behalf of the city. The president, in his opening speech, remarked that New Zealand had the highest per capita average of book readers in the world. In the last 15 years the books imported into the Dominion had Increased in value two and a half times, and the population increase during the same period had been one and a half times. He dealt with the efforts of the association to keep a check on prurient and sex spiced novels, and the out and out sex novel was disappearing to give place to the healthier tone which was coming into novel literature.
The conference then went into com mittee.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1927, Page 7
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