11 FEBRUARY

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

209

SOUTH ISLAND MAORI LAND COURT DISTRICT (CHRISTCHURCH)

Court .. Date of Sitting Panui Closes

Picton .. .. Tue, 20 Apr 1971 5 Apr 1971
Christchurch .. .. Tue, 18 May 1971 30 Apr 1971
Dunedin .. .. Mon, 2 Aug 1971 16 Jul 1971
Invercargill .. .. Wed, 4 Aug 1971 16 Jul 1971
Christchurch .. .. Tue, 5 Oct 1971 17 Sep 1971
Picton .. .. Tue, 2 Nov 1971 22 Oct 1971
Christchurch .. .. Thu, 20 Jan 1972 21 Dec 1971
Dunedin .. .. Mon, 21 Feb 1972 4 Feb 1972
Invercargill .. .. Wed, 23 Feb 1972 4 Feb 1972

*Sitting commences 2 p.m.

Approved Wool-marking Preparation (Notice No. Ag. 10760)

PURSUANT to section 94 of the Animals Act 1967, the Director-General of Agriculture, after consultation with the New Zealand Wool Board, hereby gives notice that the woolmarking preparation set out in the Schedule hereto (a product of Vetco Products Ltd., Auckland) is approved for sale and general purpose use in marking wool or sheep.

SCHEDULE

VP Topmark—Aerosol stock marker, black.

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of February 1971.

A. T. JOHNS, Director-General of Agriculture.

(Ag. 3104)

Tariff and Development Board Notice No. 197—Writing Ink, Printing Ink, and Other Inks of Tariff Heading 32.13—Change of Date of Public Inquiry

THE Public Inquiry advertised in Notice No. 194, in the New Zealand Gazette of 3 December 1970, has now been postponed until Tuesday, 7 September 1971. The venue will be as in Notice No. 194 (the Boardroom, First Floor, Law Society Building, 26 Waring Taylor Street, Wellington), and the inquiry will commence at 10.30 a.m.

The closing date for the receipt of evidence will be Friday, 20 August 1971.

Dated at Wellington this 9th day of February 1971.

O. A. BLACK,
Secretary, Tariff and Development Board.

P.O. Box 5070, Wellington.

Tariff and Development Board Notice No. 200—New Zealand - Australia Free Trade Agreement Additions to Schedule A—Dartboards (Ex Tariff Item 97.04.09)

1. At the request of the Minister of Overseas Trade, the Tariff and Development Board proposes to inquire into and report upon the question of whether dartboards classified within Tariff item 97.04.09 should be added to Schedule A of the New Zealand - Australia Free Trade Agreement.

2. The Board will, in accordance with its normal procedures, conduct a public inquiry in the Boardroom, First Floor, Law Society Building, 26 Waring Taylor Street, Wellington, on Thursday, 29 April 1971, commencing at 10.30 a.m.

3. Any person who intends to tender evidence should lodge 12 copies of a typewritten statement of the evidence, to be presented under oath at the public inquiry, at the Board’s office no later than Thursday, 15 April 1971. To assist in the preparation of this evidence the Board has prepared an outline of the information required for consideration of representations regarding additions to Schedule A of the New Zealand - Australia Free Trade Agreement. Copies of this outline may be obtained from the Board’s office.

Dated at Wellington this 9th day of February 1971.

O. A. BLACK,
Secretary, Tariff and Development Board.

P.O. Box 5070, Wellington.

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

No. 240-249

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of an application by Murdoch Riley, of Wellington, company director, as agent for the publishers, for decisions in respect of the following books:

The Coming of a God. The Daughter of Fanny Hill, Vol. II. The Wife Traders. Flossie in Bondage. Transvestism. Sex Variations in Voyeurism. The Bisexual Woman. Part-Time Virgins. Eager Virgins. Auto-Eroticism.

DECISIONS OF THE TRIBUNAL

THE application is made by leave of the Minister of Justice. There was no appearance of the applicant. In respect of each book the Tribunal decides as follows:

The Coming of a God, by Jerry Fonarow; published by Holloway House, Los Angeles.

Nothing in this ill-written book has sufficient artistic or social purpose to offset the effect of its numerous passages of violence and indecency.

The Tribunal accordingly classifies it as indecent.

The Daughter of Fanny Hill, Vol. II; published by Brandon House, California.

Volume I of this book was considered by the Tribunal on 28 October 1969 and was declared not to be indecent.

The authenticity of this book, which is described as expurgated, remains very uncertain, and that contributes to the Tribunal’s decision that as it in some ways and episodes lays a larger and more pervasive emphasis on sexual activities, normal and abnormal, than the first volume, its distribution cannot be considered in the public interest. The Tribunal accordingly classifies it as indecent.

The Wife Traders, by Charles Beck; published by Award Books, New York.

This is one more of too many books about wife-swapping. As usual it is set in an environment of idleness, affluence, and indulgence. Although the author contrived a romantically happy ending between Connie, the likeable partner in the swaps, mostly uncongenial, and Dr Larry Crandall, her husband having been incinerated in a car crash, these considerations do not offset the repetitions and emphasised details of the swaps or of the violence that enters into them. On these, the emphasis falls so heavily that the Tribunal is led to classify this book as indecent in terms of the Act.

Flossie in Bondage, by Florence H.; published by Bens Books Ltd., London.

The contrived true lovers’ ending does not change the character or quality of this super-heated story of a passionate girl’s surrender to her early seduction and her willing progress through a life of sexual promiscuity. The episodes of the progress are described with a fulsome emphasis on physical details. The effect, clearly intended, is such as to oblige the Tribunal to classify the book as indecent within the meaning of the Act, for it has no counteracting, artistic, or other merit.

Transvestism, by Hugh Magnus; published by Tandem Books, London.

Sex Variations in Voyeurism, by Sean O’Shea; published by Tandem Books, London.

The Bisexual Woman, by David Lynne; published by Bens Books Ltd., London.

Part-Time Virgins, by Sean Ahearn; published by Bens Books Ltd., London.

Eager Virgins, by Sterling Hankins; published by Bens Books Ltd., London.

Auto-Eroticism, by Alexander Gray; published by Bens Books Ltd., London.

These books follow a now fairly familiar pattern. The theme of each is some form of sex deviation, the method to supply some form of introduction, exposition, or commentary and to illustrate it with what purport to be personal case-histories and it is not denied that the expositions are matter-of-fact and adequately so, on an elementary level. It is however, noticeable that the credentials of the expositors, interviewers, and editors are not fully and explicitly stated, that the case histories occupy most of the space and take most of the emphasis, and that there is a disturbing corres-