Licensing Chatham Islands County Council to Occupy a Site
for a Wharf at Waitangi, Chatham Islands

PURSUANT to the Harbours Act 1950, the Minister of Marine
hereby licenses and permits Chatham Islands County Council
(hereinafter called the licensee, which term shall include its
administrators or assigns unless the context requires a different
construction) to use and occupy a part of the foreshore and
bed of the sea at Waitangi, Chatham Islands, as shown on
plan marked M.D. 6450 and deposited in the office of the
Marine Department at Wellington, for the purpose of maintaining thereon a wharf, as shown on the said plan, such
licence to be held and enjoyed by the licensee upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE
CONDITIONS

(1) This licence is subject to the Foreshore Licence Regulations 1960 and the provisions of those regulations shall, so
far as applicable, apply hereto.

(2) The term of the licence shall be 14 years from the
1st day of June 1968.

(3) The annual sum payable by the licensee shall be 10
cents payable on demand.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of May 1968.
W. J. SCOTT, Minister of Marine.
(M. 54/3/324)

Land in the Nelson 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
NELSON LAND DISTRICT—NELSON CONSERVANCY
WAIMEA COUNTY
LOT 1, D.P. 6892, being part Section 32 and part of part
Section 2 of 17, Square 9, situated in Blocks VIII and XII,
Kaiteriteri Survey District: Area, 48 acres 3 roods, more or
less (D.P. 6892).

As shown on Plan No. S 14/4 deposited in the Head Office
of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon
bordered red.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of May 1968.
A. L. POOLE, Director-General of Forests.
(F.S. 9/4/139, 6/4/198; L. and S. H.O. 10/97/74)

Decision of Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963 and in the
matter of a reference to the Tribunal under s. 12 (1) of the
said Act by the Magistrate’s Court at Dunedin for a decision
and report in terms of the said section in respect of the
book—A History of Eroticism by Lo Duca. Jean-Jacques
Pauvert, Paris 1961. Rodney Books, London, 1966.

DECISION AND REPORT

THE above book was seized under a search warrant issued
under s. 25 (1) of the Act and Bernard Graham Lockhart
trading as Jim’s Bookshop was summoned before the Magis-
trate’s Court at Dunedin to show cause why the book should
not be destroyed. The question of its indecency having arisen
in these proceedings the Tribunal is required to make a
decision and report in terms of s. 12 (1) in respect of the
said book.

At the hearing before the Tribunal the Police were repre-
sented by Mr Neazor of the Crown Law Office. In respect of
this book he submitted that it should be classified as indecent,
or indecent in the hands of persons under 18 years of age.
No submissions were received by the Tribunal by or on behalf
of Mr Lockhart.

The Tribunal decides and reports as follows:

"This book is one of the same series as Eros Modern Style
which has already been considered by the Tribunal. It is a
heavily illustrated translation and adaptation from a French
work. There is no statement about the extent of the adaptation
nor whether all, or to what extent, the illustrations appeared
in the original edition. It is a scholarly work with quotations
from classical and later writers, and with footnotes. The
illustrations are not always related to the text and portray
acts of indecency and even bestiality. It is a serious study,
and the question for the Tribunal is whether its historical and
literary value for unrestricted reading are outweighed by
these matters. In the opinion of the Tribunal it is not suitable
for unrestricted reading and it is therefore classified as indecent
except in the hands of professional students of medicine,
psychology, sociology, and fine arts."

L. G. H. SINCLAIR, Chairman.
22 May 1968.

Indecent Publications Tribunal

I, John Lochiel Robson, of Wellington, Secretary for Justice,
hereby give notice that I have applied to the Indecent Publi-
cations Tribunal for a decision as to whether the book
Querelle of Brest by Jean Genet, translated from the French
by Gregory Streatham and published by Anthony Blond Ltd.,
56 Doughty Street, London W.C. 1, is indecent or not or for a
decision as to its classification.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of May 1968.
J. L. ROBSON, Secretary for Justice.

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

PURSUANT to section 3 of the Local Authorities Loans Act
1956 (as amended by section 3 (1) of the Local Authorities
Loans Amendment Act 1967), the undersigned Assistant Secre-
tary to the Treasury, acting under powers delegated to the
Secretary to the Treasury by the Minister of Finance, hereby
consents to the borrowing by the local authorities mentioned
in the Schedule hereto of the whole or any part of the
respective amounts specified in that Schedule.

SCHEDULE
Local Authority and Name of Loan
Amount
Consented to
$
Auckland Hospital Board: Redemption Loan 1968
300,000
Auckland Regional Authority: Drainage Loan No.
52, 1968
2,100,000
Christchurch Drainage Board: Sewerage Loan No. 1,
1968
500,000
Featherston County Council: Bridge Loan 1968
12,000
Hobson County Council: Kaihu Valley Stage III
Drainage Loan 1968
20,800
Horowhenua Electric Power Board: Electrical
Reticulation Loan No. 17, 1968
400,000
Kaikohe Borough Council:
Footpaths Construction Loan 1968
36,000
Sewerage Redemption Loan 1968
4,500
Manukau City Council:
Highland Park Subdivision Development Loan
No. 1, 1968
250,000
Land Purchase Loan No. 11, 1968
54,000
Napier City Council: Civic Centre Supplementary
Loan 1968
56,000
New Plymouth City Council: Streets Renewal Loan
1968
47,000
Northland Harbour Board: Repayment Loan No. 6,
1968
240,000
Otamatea County Council: Maungaturoto Centen-
nial Hall Supplementary Loan 1968
2,500
Raglan County Council: Renewal Loan 1968
29,000
South Canterbury Electric Power Board: Renewal
Loan 1968
80,000
Taranaki Harbours Board: Redemption Loan No.
1, 1968
240,000
Waipawa Borough Council: Pensioner Flats Supple-
mentary Loan 1968
1,000
Waitaki County Council: Moeraki Water Supply
Loan 1967
18,000
Wanganui County Council: Turoa Road Property
Loan 1968
80,000

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of May 1968.
S. C. PARKER, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
(T. 40/416/6)

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

PURSUANT to section 3 of the Local Authorities Loans Act
1956 (as amended by section 3 (1) of the Local Authorities
Loans Amendment Act 1967), the undersigned Assistant Secre-
tary to the Treasury, acting under powers delegated to the
Secretary to the Treasury by the Minister of Finance, hereby
consents to the borrowing by the local authorities mentioned
in the Schedule hereto of the whole or any part of the
respective amounts specified in that Schedule.

SCHEDULE
Local Authority and Name of Loan
Amount
Consented to
$
Alexandra Borough Council: Water and Sewerage
Renewal Loan 1968
15,000
Central Canterbury Electric Power Board: No. 19
Reticulation Loan 1968
400,000
Manaia Town Council: Staff Housing Loan 1968
6,500
Marlborough Harbour Board: Renewal Loan No. 5,
1968
38,496
Nelson Harbour Board: Redemption Loan No. 2,
1968
60,700