Setting Apart Maori Freehold Land as a Maori Reservation

Pursuant to section 439 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953,
the Maori freehold land described in the Schedule hereto is
hereby set apart as a Maori reservation for the purpose of
a recreation ground, sports ground, bathing place, and landing
place for the common use and benefit of the owners and
of the Maori peoples of the district generally.

SCHEDULE

Gisborne Land District

All that piece of land situated in Block V, Haparapara
Survey District, and described as follows:
A. R. P.
Being
0 2 20 Omaio 44 as described in a partition order of
the Maori Land Court dated 14 June 1973 and
shown on plan N.L.C.P. 3125 (Gisborne) and
13102 (Auckland).

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 1973.
I. W. APPERLEY,
Deputy Secretary for Maori and Island Affairs.
(M. and I.A. H.O. 21/1/272; D.O. Omaio Court Corres.)

Setting Apart Maori Freehold Land as a Maori Reservation

Pursuant to section 439 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953,
the Maori freehold land described in the Schedule hereto
is hereby set apart as a Maori reservation for the purpose
of a burial ground for the common use and benefit of the
owners and of the Maori peoples of the district generally.

SCHEDULE

Gisborne Land District

All that piece of land situated in Block V, Haparapara
Survey District and described as follows:
A. R. P.
Being
1 1 20 Omaio 1 as described in a partition order of the
Maori Land Court dated 14 June 1973 and
shown on plan N.L.C.P. 3125 (Gisborne) and
13102 (Auckland).

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 1973.
I. W. APPERLEY,
Deputy Secretary for Maori and Island Affairs.
(M. and I.A. H.O. 21/1/272; D.O. Omaio Court Corres.)

Setting Apart Maori Freehold Land as a Maori Reservation

Pursuant to section 439 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953,
the Maori freehold land described in the Schedule hereto
is hereby set apart as a Maori reservation for the purpose
of a burial ground and as a place of historical interest
(being the site of the ancient Puhirua Pa) for the common
use and benefit of Ngati Rangiwewehi and the Maori peoples
of the District.

SCHEDULE

South Auckland Land District

All that piece of land situated in Block XII, Rotorua Survey
District and described as follows:
A. R. P.
Being
5 3 9.4 Mangorewa Kaharoa 15 as described in Partition
Order of the Maori Land Court dated 23
August 1973.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of December 1973.
I. W. APPERLEY,
Deputy Secretary for Maori and Island Affairs.
(M. and I.A. H.O. 21/1/273; D.O. Mangorewa Kaharoa
Court Corres.)

No. 765
Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

In the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and
in the matter of an application by Waverley Publishing Co.
Ltd. for a decision in respect of the book Your Sex Drive
by Robert Chartham, PH.D., published by Pinnacle Books Inc.,
New York.

A written submission was received from the applicant.

DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL
Your Sex Drive

This is another book on sex by Dr Robert Chartham in
which he discusses and gives his explanation of the term
"sex-drive". It is a question and answer discussion interspersed
with a large number of case histories of husbands and wives
with extracts from diaries in which they record in detail
their lovemaking.

Dr Chartham endeavours to justify the recording of these
with a veneer of pseudo-medical scientific comment—a device,
it would seem, to have the book accepted as an authoritative
study of sexual behaviour. We question the integrity of the
writing.

The deliberately explicit and somewhat tedious accounts
of sexual behaviour both natural and unnatural are offensive
and in the opinion of the Tribunal render the book indecent
within the meaning of the Act.

The Tribunal classifies this book as indecent.
R. S. V. SIMPSON, Chairman.

14 December 1973.

No. 766
Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

In the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and
in the matter of a reference to the Tribunal under section 12
(1) of the said Act by the Magistrate's Court at Wellington
for a decision and report in terms of the said section in
respect of the book Itch No. 2, published by Itch Publications.

Miss Tuohy appeared on behalf of the publishers and
made submissions. Mr Neazor and Mr Trendle, solicitors,
appeared on behalf of the Police and made submissions.
Mr Rosenberg appeared on behalf of the defendant in the
Court proceedings but did not make submissions.

DECISION AND REPORT
Itch No. 2

The Tribunal is charged by section 10 of the Indecent
Publications Act 1963 with determining the character of any
book submitted to it and with classifying it within the
categories there provided. The Tribunal has no function in
respect of what precedes or follows its determination of the
character of a book and its classification. Accordingly, that
part of the submissions by the publishers relating to their
dealings with the police is simply put aside by the Tribunal.

In considering Itch No. 2 the Tribunal has taken into
consideration the matters set out in section 11 of the Act.
These may be summarised as the overall effect of the work,
the intrinsic worth of its contents, its intended or probable
readers, its price, the possibility of corruption of any readers
and the likelihood of benefit to others, and the sincerity of
the author. Dealing with sex, horror, crime, cruelty, or
violence in a manner injurious to the public good is the
fundamental ingredient which must be found in a work
declared indecent. The Tribunal has on various occasions
referred to discussion of the provisions of the Act in the
case of Robson v. Hicks, Smith, and Sons Ltd. [1965],
N.Z.L.R. 1113, and wishes on this occasion to refer to
two statements in the judgment of Haslam, J. At page 1120
he states that the words of section 11 (2) lead him to the
conclusion "that the effect of the publication of a book
upon the 'public good' is to be the primary element in its
classification, and that this expression of variable content,
designed to direct attention to the impact of a published
work upon the community, is expressly left undefined so
that the Tribunal may exercise its statutory powers with
due regard to changing conditions".

Again, at page 1121, he says:

"It is therefore clear that protection of young persons
from contamination by mischievous literature still survives
as the salient purpose of the present Act."