1076

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 53

The closing date for the receipt of representations, 28 May
1976, and the date of the hearing, 29 June 1976, remain
unchanged.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of May 1976.

F. E. BEAUFORT,
Secretary, Industries Development Commission.

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
$

Auckland City Council:
General Purposes Loan No. 1, 1976
130,000
Central King Country Pest Destruction Board:
Staff Housing Loan 1976
12,000
Christchurch City Council:
Elderly Persons’ Housing (Angus Street) Loan
1976
52,500
Elderly Persons’ Housing (Brougham Street Reclamation Area) Loan 1976
28,000
Eltham County Council:
Rural Housing Loan 1976
30,000
Hamilton City Council:
Renewal Loan No. 1, 1976
30,400
Kaiapoi Borough Council:
Staff Housing Loan 1976
20,000
Nelson Hospital Board:
Hospital Works Loan 1976
850,000
Palmerston North City Council:
Community Housing Loan 1976
762,195
Raglan County Council:
Raglan Town Sewerage Supplementary Loan 1976
33,000
Southland Catchment Board:
Makarewa River Works, Redemption Loan
No. 1, 1976
37,850
Te Puke Borough Council:
Plant Replacement Loan 1975
15,000
Waitemata City Council:
Assets and Liabilities Apportionment Loan 1976
326,400
Wanganui City Council:
Consolidated Redemption Loan 1976
30,700
Wellington Harbour Board:
Second Container Crane Loan No. 3, 1976
306,000

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of May 1976.

S. A. McLEOD, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
(T. 40/416/6)

No. 855

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and
in the matter of a reference by the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington,
for a decision in respect of the following publications:
Stallion, August 1974 edition, published by Herd Publishing Co.
Pty. Limited; Male International Nudes, Vol. 2, No. 1, published
by Don Busby Studios, Australian Golden Boys, Vol. 1, No. 2,
published by Pictorial Magazines Australasia Pty. Ltd.;
Mankind, Number Four, published by Mankind Publications;
Body, Vol. 3, No. 1, published by Q.Q. Publishing Co. Inc.;
CIAO, Vol. 1, No. 6, published by Q.Q. Publishing Co. Ltd.;
New Apollo, Issue 5, published by Herd Publishing Co. Pty.
Ltd.; Era, Collectors Edition, published by Q.Q. publishing
Co. Ltd.; Ribald, Number 93, published by Bertram Horne
Co. Pty. Ltd.; Gay, Number 9, newspaper, published by
Bertram Horne Co. Pty. Ltd.

BEFORE THE INDECENT PUBLICATIONS TRIBUNAL

Messrs L. M. Greig (Chairman), D. M. Wylie, I. R. Cross,
Mrs L. Edmond, Miss W. M. Rolleston.

Hearing: 15 March 1976.

Appearances: P. E. Leloir for Customs Department; M. J.
Neville for D. J. Doole.

DECISION

This group of documents come before us on reference
from the Magistrate’s Court in proceedings for condemnation,
under the Customs Act 1966, following disputed forfeiture
by the Customs Department. We were told that the
material was imported by a private importer in September
1974 for his own use and not for sale, he having purchased
them from a book shop or book shops in Sydney. We were
not given any explanation for the apparent delay since seizure
in September 1974.

The documents are not all of the same kind and rather
different considerations apply to some of them.

The magazines New Apollo, Mankind, Body, Male International
Nudes and Australian Golden Boys consist entirely,
or almost entirely, of photographs of young men naked and
photographed so as to emphasise the penis.

Era consists almost entirely of naked and partly clothed
young men. There is not the same emphasis on the penis
in this book and it is said in the text that it is intended
as a retrospective work republishing photographs of “famous
models” whose photographs had appeared in other magazines
from the days before “the frontal nude type of physique
pictorial”. All these magazines are clearly published to appeal
to homosexuals.

Stallion and CIAO are both magazines which have a considerable
amount of text but with some photographs, especially
in the case of CIAO, similar to the first group mentioned
above. Both magazines are frankly homosexual and applaud
and appear to be intended to encourage homosexual associations.

Gay and Ribald look like newspapers published in Australia
by the same company. Neither are dated and we conclude
from internal evidence that they are occasional publications
which come within the definition of magazines. The first
of these is homosexual, the latter is heterosexual. Both contain
photographs, cartoons, and advertisements which are
clearly indecent in themselves.

In submissions to us Mr Neville urged us to take into
consideration (inter alia) a number of publications and extracts
from publications which, it was alleged, were available for
purchase in New Zealand in September 1974 or later. One
of these, Australian Golden Boys Vol. 1, No. 1, was classified
indecent in Decision 722 (New Zealand Gazette No. 80, 23
August, p. 1618). None of the others had come before us
previously at least in the form presented to us at this hearing.

In all the circumstances, we believe that such material
is not relevant to our consideration of the documents now
before us.

We have given careful consideration to the submissions
made to us and to the matters referred to in section 11
of the Act. The photographic material, the text, advertisements,
and cartoons in each of the documents lead us to
conclude that the dominant effect of each is objectionable
and injurious to the public good. Although this is not a
case of intended distribution for gain, the documents readily
lend themselves to improper and harmful use.

In conclusion, we should record some sympathy for the
importer who after 18 months finds himself a private importer
of indecent documents, but this is not a matter which
can affect our decision.

The Tribunal classifies each document as indecent.

Dated this 22nd day of April 1976.

LAURENCE M. GREIG, Chairman.

No. 856

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and
in the matter of an application by Seven Seas Publishing
Pty. Limited for a decision in respect of the following publications:
The Yes Book of Sex: Masturbation Techniques for Women and The Yes Book of Sex: You Can Last Longer, published by Multi Media Resource Centre; Sexual Pleasures from A to Z, published by Pent-R-Books Inc., Sexualität Heute: Lustreiche Stellungen (Love Positions), published by Carl Stephenson Verlag.

BEFORE THE INDECENT PUBLICATIONS TRIBUNAL

Messrs L. M. Greig (Chairman), W. M. Wylie, I. R. Cross,
Mrs L. Edmond, Miss W. M. Rolleston.

Hearing: 15 March 1976.

Appearances: P. J. Downey for Seven Seas Publishing Pty. Ltd.

DECISION

These four publications submitted by Seven Seas Publishing
Pty. Limited are from different sources, two being German
in origin, the others from San Francisco. What they appear