14 APRIL
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
827

Article 3:7 of that Agreement, for the purpose of implementing special measures beneficial to the trade and development of Australia and New Zealand, the goods listed in the Schedule to this notice have been nominated by Australia and New Zealand Governments for addition to Schedule B as constituted by the said Exchange of Letters.

Schedule B, as agreed between the Governments of Australia and New Zealand, comprises goods which may enter into Australia and New Zealand at such rates of duty, at such quantitative levels, and under such conditions as are agreed between the two industries and between the Australian and New Zealand Governments.

Comments and representations are invited from interested persons with respect to the proposed addition of the goods scheduled hereto. Any comments and representations may be made to the Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry, Private Bag, Wellington. These should be made no later than 21 days from the date of publication of this notice. Copies of the proposal are available from the Secretary of Trade and Industry at the above address.

SCHEDULE

Tariff Item
Description in Terms of the New Zealand Tariff
42.02.001
Trunks, suitcases, hat boxes.
Ex 42.02.019
Travelling bags.

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of April 1976.

K. J. FUTTER, Secretary of Trade and Industry.

Approved Woolmarking Preparation (No. 1419 Ag. 6/8/2/2)

PURSUANT to section 69 of the Animals Act 1967, notice is hereby given that, after consultation with the New Zealand Wool Board, the woolmarking preparation set out in the Schedule to this notice (a product of John Edward Butler (New Zealand) Ltd., Auckland) is approved for sale and general purpose use in marking wool on sheep.

SCHEDULE

Ewe Marka—Marking crayon: red

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of April 1976.

G. H. ADLAM,
for Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

PURSUANT to the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, 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
Amount Consented to $
Bay of Islands County Council:
General Housing Loan 1976
60,000
Rural Housing Loan 1976
50,000
Paiba Community Council Major Works Loan 1975
58,000
Blenheim Borough Council:
Car Parking Loan 1975
84,500
Franklin County Council:
Rural Housing Loan 1976
150,000
Drury Water Supply Loan 1976
108,000
Gisborne City Council:
Renewal Loan 1976
80,150
Greymouth Borough Council:
Housing for the Elderly Loan 1975
31,500
Manukau City Council:
Administration Building Loan No. 3, 1976
775,000
Northcote Borough Council:
Hillcrest Valley Stormwater Loan 1976
65,000
Oamaru Borough Council:
Staff Housing Loan 1976
17,000
Petone Borough Council:
Hutt Estuary Bridge Redemption Loan No. 2, 1976
39,800
Stratford County Council:
Staff Housing Loan No. 2, 1975
50,000
Roxborough Pest Destruction Board:
Staff Housing Loan 1975
41,000

Local Authority and Name of Loan
Amount Consented to $
Tauranga City Council:
Electricity Loan 1975
220,000
Tauranga Electric Power Board:
Electricity Generation Renewal Loan 1976
70,000
Tararu Electric Power Board:
Reticulation Loan 1976
250,000
Wellington Regional Water Board:
Forestry Encouragement Loan 1976
688,500

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of April 1976.

S. A. McLEOD, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.

(T. 40/416/6)

No. 854

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 publication Oui, Volume 4, Number 10 (October 1975), published by Playboy Publications Inc., Chicago U.S.A.

Hearing: 16 October 1975.

Appearances: Mr P. E. Leloir and Mr K. G. Murray for Comptroller of Customs; Mr R. A. Heron for Gordon and Gotch (N.Z.) Ltd. and publisher.

DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL

Five issues of this magazine have now been before the Tribunal (Decisions 745-747, 799, and 832). In decisions 745-747 the Tribunal noted; “The interest in contemporary affairs is very limited and light-weight. The dominant concern in the cartoons, text . . . and the illustrations, is with presenting sex for entertainment and amusement. The explicitness of some of this material, and the indulgent tone with which extreme and perverted manifestations of sexual interest are allowed for, make these issues clearly unsuitable for younger readers and marginal for adults.”

In considering subsequent issues, the Tribunal has been aware of a trend toward greater emphasis upon the sexual content of the magazine.

While this issue continues the trend, it also reveals a subtle change in tone over previous issues. Indulgence has given way to prurience. Three articles in particular, contribute to this view. They are “Sex Tapes” (which constitutes a forum for readers to relate their sexual excesses), an article on telephone masturbation and sex fantasy services and a sequence of photographic illustrations depicting the seduction of a young girl by her aunt. These articles, together with other material dealing with the subject of sex, affect the overall tone of the magazine and, thus, its dominant effect is to debase and exploit sex. Those articles which are intended to be informative and serious remain light-weight and limited and, in the Tribunal’s view, are included merely as camouflage to render acceptable indecent parts of the magazine. Thus, this issue of Oui fails to meet the criteria for our consideration under Section 11 of the Act.

The Tribunal classifies this magazine as indecent.

Dated this 1st day of April 1976.

LAURENCE M. GREIG, Chairman.

Indecent Publications Tribunal

I, Norman William Laking, Acting Comptroller of Customs, give notice that I have applied to the Indecent Publications Tribunal for a decision as to whether the book described below is indecent or not, or for a decision as to its classification.

Title: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.
Author: —
Publisher: The Hogarth Guild.

N. W. LAKING.

Indecent Publications Tribunal

I, Norman William Laking, Acting Comptroller of Customs, give notice that I have applied to the Indecent Publications Tribunal for a decision as to whether the book described below is indecent or not, or for a decision as to its classification.

Title: Black Pirate.
Author: Robert Tralins.
Publisher: Warner Paperback Library.

N. W. LAKING.