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inclusion of posed photographs of nude and semi nude female
figures that we feel some doubt about the unrestricted
distribution and display of these magazines. Occasional photo-
graps in each of the magazines come close to the second
category mentioned in our decision of 25 July 1968; but,
taking them as a whole, we decide that these three magazines
are not indecent.

L. G. H. SINCLAIR, Chairman.

11 November 1968.

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

No. 132

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 book Myra Breckinridge, by Gore Vidal;
published by Anthony Blond Ltd., London, 1968.

DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL

THIS novel was submitted to the Tribunal by Whitcombe and
Tombs Ltd., of Christchurch, with leave of the Minister
of Justice. Written submissions were made by the applicant.

The novel is a highly sophisticated, witty, and up-to-the-
minute satire of the vapidity of life and values in a com-
mercialised culture. Its comic deflation leaves little untouched:
academies, TV, film mythology, overpopulation, fantasy living,
psychoanalysis, big business, pop culture, communications
science, fashionable theories of literary expression, and, most
important of all, the oversexed novel. Like most parodies, it
makes its points effective by a witty, allusive style and by
exaggeration of incident. The main character, who is also the
narrator, has undergone a sex change (and suffers a reversion),
and sexual aberrations abound; but their presentation is openly
amusing, not pruriently erotic, and forms a necessary part
of the author’s attack on the greater social evil of mindless
vulgarity generated by commercialised “art” forms. Given
this general theme and purpose, passages which might offend
if taken out of context fall naturally into place and are quite
consistent with the imaginative purposes of the book as a
whole.

The edition submitted (in proof form) is not the full text
of the novel, certain excisions having been made by the
author to enable publication in the British Isles. The book
has literary merit and the Tribunal decides that, in this text,
it is not indecent within the meaning of the Act.

L. G. H. SINCLAIR, Chairman.

11 November 1968.

Boundaries of the County of Rodney and Matakana Riding
of the County of Rodney Defined

PURSUANT to section 16 of the Counties Act 1956, the Secre-
tary for Internal Affairs hereby defines, as set out in the
Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the County of Rodney
and the Matakana Riding of Rodney County; the boundaries
having previously been altered by Order in Council made
on 5 February 1968 and published in Gazette, 8 February
1968, No. 6, p. 166.

SCHEDULE

BOUNDARIES OF RODNEY COUNTY

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded
by a line commencing at the junction of the right bank of
the Mangawhai Estuary with the sea coast in Block V,
Mangawhai Survey District, and proceeding southerly gen-
erally along the said sea coast, crossing the mouths of all
harbours and inlets, to and westerly up the middle of the
Waiwera River and the channel of that river south of Te
Koroto Block, and again up the middle of the said river to
a point in line with the north-western boundary of Allot-
ment 104, Waiwera Parish, in Block III, Waiwera Survey
District; thence south-westerly to and along that boundary to
and westerly along the northern boundaries of Allotments
101, 102, 103, 242, and 256 and the last-mentioned boundary
produced to and up the middle of the Waiwera River in
Block II, Waiwera Survey District, to a point in line
with the northern boundary of Allotment 89, shown on S.O.
plan 1397C; thence still westerly to and along that boundary
and the northern side of a public road forming the northern
boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 50186, and part Allotment 89, along
a right line across the said public road to and along the
northern boundaries of Allotment 286 and Lot 2, D.P. 39203,
and along a right line across Bayers Road to and along the
northern boundaries of Allotments 283 and 272, crossing the
intervening Tahekeroa-Waiwera Road, and along the north-
ern boundaries of Allotments 270, N.E. 135, M. 135, W. 135,
N. 134, crossing an intervening public road, 466, N. 113 and
112, crossing the intervening Tahekeroa-Waiwera Road, to the
westernmost corner of the last-mentioned allotment in Block
I, Waiwera Survey District, all the aforesaid allotments being
of Waiwera Parish; thence northerly along the eastern bound-
ary of Lot 5, D.P. 26487, along a right line across the afore-
said road, to and along the eastern boundaries of part Lot 3,
D.P. 26487, and Allotment 232, Makarau Parish, along a

right line across the aforementioned road and the Tahekeroa
Stream to and along the eastern boundaries of Lot 2, D.P.
20898, and the part Allotment 185, Makarau Parish, shown
on D.P. 18176, and along a right line crossing the Newmarket-
Opua Railway, the Tahekeroa-Puhoi Road, Kohekohe Stream,
and Lot 4, D.P. 11758, to and along the eastern boundary
of the part Allotment 188, Makarau Parish, shown on D.P.
2543, to and westerly along the northern boundaries of that
allotment, Lot 3, D.P. 11758, parts Allotment N. 187 and
Allotment N. 186 shown on D.P. 3068, to and north-westerly
along the north-eastern boundary of Allotment N. 64, also
shown on D.P. 3068, in Block III, Kaipara Survey District,
all the aforesaid allotments being of Makarau Parish, and
the last-mentioned boundary produced to and south-westerly
generally down the middle of the Rauhori Stream and the
middle of the Makarau River to the Kaipara Harbour in
Block II, Kaipara Survey District; thence north-westerly and
north-easterly generally along the shores of that harbour and
along the left banks of the Oruawharo and Topuni Rivers
to and up the middle of the Hakaru River to a point in line
with the northern side of a public road forming the south-
ern boundary of Allotment 193, Oruawharo Parish, in Block
IV, Otamatea Survey District; thence south-easterly gener-
ally along a right line to and along that northern side and
the generally northern side of the public road forming the
southern boundaries of Allotments 31, 30, 29, 242, part
Allotment 22, crossing the intervening Pritchards Road, part
Allotment 21, and part Allotment 18, to a point in line with
the south-western boundary of the part Allotment 18 shown
on D.P. 26309, and along a right line to and along the south-
western and north-easterly generally along the south-eastern
boundaries of the said part of that allotment to and continuing
along the public road forming the south-eastern boundaries
of that Allotment 18 and the generally southern boundaries
of Lots 4 and 3, D.P. 42988, and the last-mentioned road-
side produced across Valley Road to and easterly generally
along the northern side of that road and the generally northern
side of a public road forming the generally southern bound-
aries of Allotments 12, 11, and 10 to the south-eastern corner
of the last-mentioned allotment in Block I, Pakiri Survey
District, all the aforesaid allotments being of Oruawharo
Parish; thence north-easterly generally along the eastern
boundary of that Allotment 10 to and easterly and northerly
along the southern and eastern boundaries of Allotment 50,
Mangawhai Parish, to and easterly along the southern side
of Cames Road to a point in line with the eastern boundary
of Allotment E. 78 and along a right line crossing the said
Cames Road to and northerly along the last-mentioned bound-
ary and the eastern boundary of Allotment 16 to and easterly
along the southern boundary of Allotment 31, all the afore-
said allotments being of Mangawhai Parish, and that south-
ern boundary produced to the middle of the Mangawhai
Stream; thence continuing north-easterly generally down the
middle of that stream to and along the right bank of the
Mangawhai Estuary to the point of commencement, and in-
cluding therein Kawau Island, situated in Blocks III, IV, V,
and VI, Kawau Survey District, but excluding therefrom
Warkworth Town District, as described in Gazette 1960 p. 988.

BOUNDARIES OF MATAKANA RIDING OF RODNEY COUNTY

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Rodney
County, bounded by a line commencing at the intersection
of the northern boundary of Allotment 30A, Matakana Parish
(landing reserve, Gazette, 1890, p. 585), with the right bank
of the Omaha River in Block XV, Pakiri Survey District,
and proceeding easterly generally along the said right bank
and the generally southern shores of the Whangateau Harbour
to and southerly generally along the generally eastern boundary
of Rodney County, as hereinbefore described, to and north-
westerly generally along the generally north-eastern shores of
the Mahurangi Harbour to the intersection of those shores
with the eastern boundary of part Allotment 48, Mahurangi
Parish, in Block VII, Mahurangi Survey District; thence
northerly along the last-mentioned boundary along a right
line across the Warkworth-Sandspit Road to and along the
eastern boundary of another part Allotment 48, both the
aforesaid lots being rights of way shown on D.P. 703, to and
south-westerly along the south-eastern boundaries of Allot-
ment 101, crossing the intervening Warkworth-Leigh Road,
Allotments 97 and 96D, crossing the intervening State Highway
No. 1, to and along the north-western boundaries of Lot 30,
D.P. 9212, the north-eastern end of Hudson Road, Lots 22
and 18, D.P. 9212, to and south-easterly along the south-
western boundary of the last-mentioned lot, the south-
western end of Sanderson Road, the south-western boundaries
of Lots 17 and 16, D.P. 9212, along a right line across Hill
Road to and along the south-western boundaries of the part
Lot 7 and Lot 6, Deeds Plan C. 29, comprised in C.T. 588/288,
and the last-mentioned boundary produced to the middle of
the Mahurangi River, in Block VI, Mahurangi Survey District;
thence north-westerly generally up the middle of that river to
a point in line with the middle of a public road forming the
southern boundary of Allotment 93, in Block VI, Mahurangi
Survey District, all the aforesaid allotments being of
Mahurangi Parish, and westerly along a right line to and
along the middle of that road and the production of that
middle line to and south-westerly along the middle of a public
road forming the south-eastern boundary of Allotment 59,
Kourawhero Parish to a point in line with the south-western
boundary of the last-mentioned allotment; thence northerly