5 AUGUST

M.O.W. 17087 and the accompanying Schedule held in the
office of the Resident Engineer, Ministry of Works, Napier,
and there available for public inspection, to be a limited
access road.

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of July 1971.
D. J. CHAPMAN, Secretary.
(72/2/5/5)

National Roads Board—Notice Prohibiting the Parking of
Vehicles on State Highway

It is hereby notified that, pursuant to the National Roads
Board Bylaw 1958, No. 1, the Board has by resolution, carried
at its meeting on 23 June 1971, prohibited the parking of
vehicles in excess of 60 minutes on the west side of No. 1
State Highway in Albany township commencing at a point
approximately opposite the centre of Giles Road and extending
south for a distance of approximately 13 chains.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of July 1971.
D. J. CHAPMAN, Secretary.
(62/33/2A)

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
Secretary 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
Taumarunui Borough Council:
Staff Housing Loan 1971
Sewerage Extension Loan 1971
Waipukurau Borough Council: Camping Ground Improvements Loan 1970
Waimate County Council: Waikakahi Water Race Loan 1971

Amount Consented to
$
12,000
240,000
20,000
98,000

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of July 1971.
S. A. McLEOD, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
(T. 40/416/6)

314–317
Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in
the matter of an application by Murdoch Riley, company
director, of Wellington, for decisions in respect of The Dream
Peddlers by Norman Phillips, The Ordeal by John London,
The Love Broker by Sumner King, and Uninhibited by Ruy
Traube, published by Belmont Books, New York.

Mr P. J. Downey, solicitor, appeared for the applicant and
made submissions in respect of each book.

DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL

The Dream Peddlers—The leading character in this paperback
novel, published in New York by Belmont Books in 1970, is a
virile, successful new Hollywood male star, who goes through
approximately one new woman per picture.

Narrated by his agent, it ends in a mass orgy-cum-murder
slightly reminiscent of, and patterned in small details on the
Sharon Tate/Charles Manson affair of 1969.

The writing is undistinguished, the sex frank but not over-
dominant. It would be difficult to contend, though, that there
is any honest purpose, or thread of thought, in this book.

The Tribunal classifies it as indecent.
R. S. V. SIMPSON, Chairman.
30 July 1971.

The Ordeal—This paperback book was published by Belmont
Books of New York in 1969 and is a novelettish, poorly
written account of the struggle for succession and power in an

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American construction firm when its owner dies. As he leaves
a young widow, the only-to-be-expected scenes of frankly
written sexual encounter duly take place, but they do not by
any means dominate the whole book. The frankness of writ-
ing, however, suggests that an age limit would be sensible.

The Tribunal classifies it as indecent in the hands of persons
under the age of 18 years.
R. S. V. SIMPSON, Chairman.
30 July 1971.

The Love Broker—This is a novel, allegedly autobiographical,
about a procurer and the sometimes bizarre, sometimes per-
verted, sexual episodes he organises to satisfy the odd require-
ments of his clients.

The jacket blurb claims this to be an “explicit account of a
profession never before fully documented”; it is by no means
a full documentation nor its “profession” quite the word for
Sumner King’s Line.

He does not, however, provide sadistic or violet entertain-
ment and while he exploits beauty and deviant desire he does
have regard for persons. There is some study of character in
the book and although much of the tone and detail is offensive
it could scarcely be corrupting to adults who may wish to read it.

The Tribunal classifies it as indecent in the hands of persons
under the age of 18 years.
R. S. V. SIMPSON, Chairman.
30 July 1971.

Uninhibited—This is a collection of popularly presented case
histories in the field of abnormal psychology. The method,
common in this class of book, is to invent or select cases for
their sensational impact, tell the story with some drama and
light and shade, and explain it in the words of an objective
and matter-of-fact psychological consultant or psychiatrist.

The cover accords better with the sensational narrative than
with the dispassionate explanation, and we are in some doubt,
as with others of this author’s works, whether the whole thing
is not a bogus concoction published with the sole motive of
battering on morbid curiosity. In any event, there can be
little value in this exposition and there must be a certain
possibility of stimulating young persons towards the perverse
practices described. Even for the adult there are few redeem-
ing features.

The Tribunal classifies the book as indecent.
R. S. V. SIMPSON, Chairman.
30 July 1971.

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Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in
the matter of an application by the Comptroller of Customs
for a decision in respect of the books I am the Beautiful
Stranger by Rosalyn Drexler, published by Sphere Books, and
The Libertine by Jacopo Massimo, published by Universal
Publishing Corporation, New York.

There was no appearance of the applicant nor the pub-
lisher's representatives in New Zealand. Accordingly no sub-
missions were made.

DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL

I am the Beautiful Stranger—This novel is legitimate fiction,
an attempt to convey the uncertainties, fears, and misconcep-
tions which beset an adolescent girl. Domestic insecurity does
not help. As though the book were a real diary, the reader
finds that there are some passages which could be either fact
or fantasy, though the character of most is clear.

Some of the detail is repellent but scarcely corrupting. The
Tribunal does not consider that this feature is a serious
enough blemish to warrant a restriction.

The Tribunal classifies the book as not indecent.
R. S. V. SIMPSON, Chairman.
30 July 1971.

The Libertine—This novel depicts a woman's discovery of a
world of bizarre sexuality which her late husband’s wealth and
depravity had fashioned for his pleasure, and her own sub-
sequent immersion in it.

The treatment of sexual perversion and the exploitation is
prurient and degrading, particularly the indulgent portrayal
of the central character's corruption. It clearly offends against
the provisions of the Act.

The Tribunal classifies the book as indecent.
R. S. V. SIMPSON, Chairman.
30 July 1971.