21 SEPTEMBER
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
2597

FIRST SCHEDULE
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT
Land Proclaimed as Road

ALL those pieces of land situated in Takitimu Survey District, described as follows:

As shown on plan S.O. 9283, lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Invercargill, and thereon marked as above-mentioned.

SECOND SCHEDULE
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT
Road to be Closed

ALL those pieces of road situated in Takitimu Survey District, described as follows:

As shown on the plans lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Invercargill and thereon marked as above-mentioned.

THIRD SCHEDULE
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT
Road to be Closed

ALL those pieces of road situated in Block XIII, Takitimu Survey District, described as follows:

As shown on plan S.O. 9283, lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Invercargill, and thereon marked as above-mentioned.

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of September 1978.

W. L. YOUNG, Minister of Works and Development.
(P.W. 47/1535; Dn. D.O. 18/767/52)

Appointment of Local Licensing Authority

PURSUANT to section 7 (2) (c) of the Dangerous Goods Act 1974, the Minister of Internal Affairs hereby declares that the Waipawa District Council is to be a Licensing Authority as from the 1st day of April 1979.

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of September 1978.

D. A. HIGHET, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Post Office Bonus Bonds Weekly Prize Draw No. 3, September 1978

PURSUANT to the Post Office Act 1959, notice is hereby given that the result of the weekly prize draw No. 3, for 16 September 1978, is as follows:

One prize of $7,500 : 030 994766

P. I. WILKINSON, Postmaster-General.

Decision No. 899
Reference No. IND-4/78

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of an application by the Acting Comptroller of Customs for a decision in respect of the following publications: Players, Vol. 4, No. 11 and 12, Vol 5, No. 1, published by International Publications (Los Angeles).

BEFORE THE INDECENT PUBLICATIONS TRIBUNAL

Messrs L. M. Greig (Chairman), D. M. Wylic, Mrs L. Edmond, H. B. Dick.

Hearing: 25 May 1978 at Wellington.

Appearances: Mr P. E. Leloir for Acting Comptroller of Customs. Written submissions from Marketing Services (1974) Limited.

DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL

These magazines published in America are similar to issues of Playboy and Penthouse magazines which have come before the Tribunal, except that the emphasis in both photography and text is on the coloured rather than white race. In both text and photographs there is a predominant emphasis in each magazine, on sexual matters. There is in addition a quantity of non-sexual, serious and informative material in each magazine. The question, as with all such magazines, is the balance between the sexual and non-sexual material. It is considered however, that they are not so acceptable as to be freely distributed. An age restriction is necessary. Further, it is appropriate that there should be a restriction order under section 15A of the Act.

The Tribunal accordingly classifies these three issues of Players as indecent in the hands of persons under the age of 18 years, and makes a restriction order under section 15A of the Act in similar terms for a period of 2 years.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of August 1978.

LAURENCE M. GREIG, Chairman.

Decision No. 902
Reference No. IND-6/78

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of a reference from the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, for a decision in respect of the following publications: Kings Cross Whisper, No 234, 235, and 238; Ribald, No. 218 and 224; Game Extra, No. 2; Wow, No. 2; Dirty, No. 10; Dari Queen, Vol. 2, No. 2; Climax, No. 2; Playbird, Vol. 1, No. 8; Bawdy, No. 12.

BEFORE THE INDECENT PUBLICATIONS TRIBUNAL

Messrs L. M. Greig (Chairman), D. M. Wylic, Mrs H. B. Dick.

Hearing: 22 June 1978.

Appearances: Mr A. Downes, importer.

DECISION

These Australian publications were seized from a returning traveller who appeared before the Tribunal and stated that he had brought them back for his own personal use. The Tribunal, however, has to consider them as documents in general.

Each of these publications is devoted to the blatant exploitation of sex, and entirely lacks any literary, artistic, social or other merit. We find them all indecent.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of September 1978.

LAURENCE M. GREIG, Chairman.

Decision No. 900
Reference No. IND-15/77

Decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of an application by Bruce Albert Armstrong, of Hamilton, for a decision in respect of the following publication: Inside Linda Lovelace, published by Ocean Press, Australia,