16 JUNE
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
1667

DECISION

These publications, which had been privately imported and seized at Wellington in January 1977, fall into several groups.

The first (Grunt, No. 12; Dirty, Nos. 7 and 12; Porno, No. 8; Frenzy and Frenzy, No. 1) consists of 6 cheaply-produced tabloid-style Australian magazines which can only be described as hard-core pornography with no redeeming features whatever.

The second group (Tied and Tormented, Vol. 1 Issue 1; Bondage Beavers, No. 1; The Kidnapped Sister; Search, Vol. 1, No. 11; and Special Search, Vol. 2, No. 2) deal with sadomasochistic themes in a generally exaggerated fantasy manner; text and pictures are mostly unrelated, and the general effect is one of unrelieved prurience.

This leaves Sex Bizarre, No. 11, a luridly-illustrated Danish publication dealing with lesbianism, and The Young Lust Reader, an American comic-style book concentrating, as the title implies, on sex and sex alone.

The Tribunal has no hesitation in finding all these publications indecent.

Dated this 2nd day of June 1977.

LAURENCE M. GREIG, Chairman.

(Reference No. IND-2/77)

No. 885

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of an application by Granada Publishing Ltd., of England, for a decision in respect of the publication The Limerick, Volumes 1 and 2, edited by G. Legman, and published by Panther Books Ltd.:

BEFORE THE INDECENT PUBLICATIONS TRIBUNAL

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

Hearing: 3 May 1977.

Appearances: Mr N. Miller for Granada Publishing Ltd.

DECISION OF THE AUTHORITY

These 2 volumes contain a lengthy introduction which discusses the history and development of the limerick and some 1700 limericks almost entirely of the bawdy variety. Although the sources of the limericks date back to 1870 nearly all of them are modern and a substantial number are credited to oral collections which may imply that they are newly invented.

While it can be said that the introduction has some merit and value the limericks singly or together have no literary merit or social importance. Many of them are plainly indecent and the overall effect of the volumes is of unending and exaggerated emphasis on sexual matters. In the end, the publication is merely a collection of trivial, indecent, and unpleasant verse which is not redeemed by the introduction.

The Tribunal finds these 2 volumes are indecent.

Dated this 2nd day of June 1977.

LAURENCE M. GREIG, Chairman.

(Reference No. IND-3/77)

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

PURSUANT to the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, the undersigned Deputy 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 $

Amuri County Council:
Hanmer Thermal Pools Loan 1977 ....... 80,000
Amuri Pest Destruction Board:
Housing Loan 1976 ................. 18,000
Auckland Hospital Board:
Redemption Loan No. 2, 1977 ....... 450,000
Cambridge Electric Power Board:
General Reticulation Loan 1977 ..... 100,000
Central Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board:
Reticulation Loan 1977 ............. 400,000
Hokitika Borough Council:
Housing Loan 1977 ................ 25,000
Manawatu County Council:
Rural Housing Loan No. 1, 1977 ..... 90,000
Manukau City Council:
Renewal Loan No. 5, 1977 .......... 65,800
Mount Eden Borough Council:
Fire Loss Reinstatement Loan No. 1, 1977 ... 83,330
Fire Loss Reinstatement Loan No. 2, 1977 ... 16,670
Otahuhu Borough Council:
Stormwater Drainage Loan 1977 ....... 250,000
Rotorua County Council:
Rural Housing Loan No. 13, 1977 ..... 120,000
Tauranga Electric Power Board:
Electrical Extension Loan 1976 ...... 1,000,000

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of June 1977.

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

Notice Under the Regulations Act 1936

PURSUANT to the Regulations Act 1936, notice is hereby given of the making of regulations as under:

Authority for Enactment Title or Subject-matter Serial Number Date of Enactment Price (Postage Free)
Maori Trustee Act 1953 Maori Trust Office Regulations 1954, Amendment No. 7 1977/148 13/6/77 10c
Education Act 1964 Education (Salaries and Staffing) Regulations 1957, Amendment No. 15 1977/149 13/6/77 10c
Fisheries Act 1908 Rock Lobster Regulations 1969, Amendment No. 9 1977/150 13/6/77 10c
Defence Act 1971 Army Regulations 1951, Amendment No. 1 1977/151 13/6/77 10c
Defence Act 1971 Royal New Zealand Air Force Regulations 1968, Amendment No. 1 1977/152 13/6/77 10c
Criminal Justice Act 1954 Work Centre (Miller Street) Notice 1977 1977/153 7/6/77 10c

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E. C. KEATING, Government Printer.