SCHEDULE
Amount
Consented to
$ Local Authority and Name of Loan
Ashburton Electric Power and Gas Board: Special
Loan 1967
Cambridge Borough Council: Housing Loan 1967
Cheviot County Council: Rural Water Supply Loan
1967
Porirua City Council: Municipal Building and
Public Library Loan 1967
Takapuna City Council:
Pensioners' Flats Loan 1967
Water Reticulation Loan 1967
Te Awamutu Borough Council: Pensioners' Flats
Loan 1967
Thames County Council: Staff Housing Loan 1967
Waipukurau Borough Council: Pensioner Flats
Loan No. 1, 1967
Wairere Electric Power Board: Reticulation Loan
1967
Waitemata County Council:
Redemption Loan No. 8, 1967
Redemption Loan No. 9, 1967
Waitemata Electric Power Board: Reticulation
Extension and Reinforcement Loan 1967
Waitomo Electric Power Board: General Extension
Loan 1967
120,000
21,000
153,000
80,000
77,000
95,680
12,800
6,000
24,000
30,000
34,900
17,400
1,600,000
120,000
Dated at Wellington this 4th day of January 1968.
S. C. PARKER, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
(T. 40/416/6)
Land in the Wellington Land District Acquired as Permanent
State Forest Land
NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule
hereto has been acquired under the Forests Act 1949 as
permanent State forest land.
SCHEDULE
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT—WELLINGTON CONSERVANCY—
MASTERTON COUNTY
SECTION 1011 Whareama District, situated in Blocks IX, XIII,
and XIV, Rewa Survey District and Section 3 and part
Section 53, Block XIV, Rewa Survey District: Area, 1,797 acres
more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 469, folio 247,
all certificate of title Volume 268, folio 162, and all certificate
of title, Volume 328, folio 185 (S.O. Plans 14139 and 26907).
As shown on Plan No. N 162/3 deposited in the Head
Office of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington, and
thereon bordered red.
Dated at Wellington this 21st day of December 1967.
A. L. POOLE, Director-General of Forests.
(F.S. 9/3/148, 6/3/108; L. and S. H.O. 10/95/51)
Appointment of Customs Examining Place in New Zealand
PURSUANT to section 32 of the Customs Act 1966, the Com-
troller of Customs hereby appoints the premises described in
the Schedule hereto to be a place for the examination by the
Customs of goods subject to the control of Customs.
SCHEDULE
Situation
Description of
Examining Place
Port of Auckland—
Auckland International
Airport, Mangere,
Air Cargo Building
Freightair Depot of Hurley and
Williams Ltd.
Dated at Wellington this 8th day of January 1968.
V. W. THOMAS, Comptroller of Customs.
Indecent Publications Act 1963
In the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963 and in
the matter of an application to the Tribunal for a decision in
respect of the magazine Playboy, November 1967, Vol. 14,
No. 11.
DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL
THE Comptroller of Customs has applied to the Tribunal for
a classification of the magazine Playboy, November issue,
1967. There were no submissions on behalf of the Comptroller.
Mr R. A. Heron appeared as Counsel for the publishers,
H.M.H. Publishing Coy., Inc., of Chicago, Illinois, and for
Gordon and Gotch (N.Z.) Ltd., the New Zealand distributors.
Mr Heron called Mr F. A. Smith, the General Manager of
Gordon and Gotch (N.Z.) Ltd., to testify as to the method
of distribution; he also submitted a letter from a reader of
the magazine.
In a decision dealing with earlier issues of this magazine,
the Tribunal made the following statement:
"Playboy is a sophisticated and ably written magazine,
designed primarily for men of affluence and intellect.... Its
literary and pictorial quality is acknowledged. The contents
include searching and informative interviews, short stories,
authoritative and stimulating articles on a wide variety of
topics by contributors who are in some cases world-famous,
along with pages of nude or almost nude models very capably
photographed, various drawings, jokes, and cartoons. There
is considerable emphasis on sex, but virtually no smut or
snigger."
The issue before us is generally in line in style and standard
with those earlier numbers, which we have already considered.
It does, however, contain the latest article in a critical and
historical series under the title "The History of Sex in
Cinema". This is the seventeenth article in the series, and
it is produced under the sub-title "The Stag Film". Without
the accompanying illustrations, the text of the article would
not come into question, but, the question remains whether
the whole article should be condemned because of them.
After due consideration, we have come to the conclusion that
they are acceptable as relevant illustrations to a serious study.
Divorced from a consideration of the text, as they might be
in the hands of juveniles, we think they are objectionable.
Our attention has been drawn to a report to the effect that
before the magazine was approved for circulation in some
other places the pages containing the illustrations in question
were removed. Our statute contains no provision for the
imposition of such a condition.
We classify this issue of the magazine as not indecent
except in the hands of persons under 17 years of age.
L. G. H. SINCLAIR, Chairman.
21 December 1967.
The Standards Act 1965—Specification Declared to be a
Standard Specification
PURSUANT to the provisions of the Standards Act 1965, the
Standards Council, on 25 October 1967, declared the under-
mentioned specification to be a standard specification:
Price of Copy
Number and Title of Specification (Post Free)
NZSS GP 37:1967 Electric deep fryers.
(Revision of NZSS GP 37:1963)
$0.60
Application for copies should be made to the Standards
Association of New Zealand, Private Bag, Wellington C. 1.
Dated at Wellington this 18th day of December 1967.
G. H. EDWARDS, Director,
Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 114/2/2:236)
The Standards Act 1965—Amendment of Standard Specification
PURSUANT to the provisions of the Standards Act 1965, the
Standards Council, on 25 October 1967, amended the under-
mentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the
amendment shown hereunder:
Number and Title of Standard Specification Amendment
NZSS 1900:—Model building bylaw—
Chapter 9:—Design and construction—
Division 9.4:1965 Steel
No. 2
Application for copies of the standard specification so
amended should be made to the Standards Association of New
Zealand, Private Bag, Wellington C. 1.
Copies of the amendment will be supplied, free of charge,
upon request.
Dated at Wellington this 18th day of December 1967.
G. H. EDWARDS, Director,
Standards Association of New Zealand.
(S.A. 114/2/3:259)
Waiheke Road District—Alteration of Boundaries
PURSUANT to section 36 of the Local Government Commission
Act 1961, it is hereby notified that the Local Government
Appeal Authority has fixed 10 a.m., on Wednesday, 14
February 1968, as the time, and the Board Room, Auckland
Regional Authority, 121 Hobson Street, Auckland, as the
place, for the hearing of the appeal by the Auckland Har-
bour Board against the final scheme of the Local Government
Commission, dated 27 April 1967, providing for the inclusion
in the Waiheke Road District of all land lying between the
present boundary of the Waiheke Road District and low-
water spring-tide mark.
Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of December 1967.
P. J. O'DEA, Secretary for Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 103/5/265)