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degree of perversion existing in the publication presently before us.

This publication has no redeeming feature, and because of its presentation of deviant sexual themes can only be injurious to the public good.

For this reason we classify it as indecent.

The Bitch Goddesses, volume 9, No. 4—This publication is of a similar size to that mentioned above, although it is slightly shorter at 46 pages long. The violent theme again pervades the text and photographs in the publication and for the same reasons as expressed above we declare the magazine to be indecent.

Aggressive Women, volume 4, No. 4—This publication measures approximately 215 mm × 280 mm and is a magazine 63 pages long.

It is an extraordinary publication because it is really a catalogue of men and women who wish to advertise and solicit responses from readers in respect of their sexually deviant proclivities. In almost all of the cases the advertisement is accompanied by a photograph, allegedly of the person concerned. Most of the advertisements are from women and as the title to the publication suggests the advertisements in many cases solicit the sexually deviant and sadistic specialities of the model.

Although there do not appear to be any advertisements from New Zealand persons, and the magazine is published and largely circulated in the United States of America, nevertheless the Tribunal feels that a publication of this kind is corruptive and is highly likely to be injurious to the public good in its sadistic portrayal of sex.

For these reasons we classify Aggressive Women as indecent.

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of June 1981.

DISTRICT COURT JUDGE W. M. WILLIS,
Chairman.

Decision No. 997
Reference No. Ind 25/80

IN the matter of the Indecent Publications Act 1963, and in the matter of an application by the New Zealand Police for a decision in respect of the following publication: Boys International, No. 4, published by S. and H. Publications, Harrow, Middlesex, England.

Hearing: 1 May 1981.

Decision: 26 June 1981.

BEFORE THE INDECENT PUBLICATIONS TRIBUNAL

Judge W. M. Willis (Chairman); Mesdames H. B. Dick, L. P. Nikera; Messrs J. V. B. McLinden, I. W. Malcolm.

Appearances: Inspector D. L. Bates for the Legal Section, New Zealand Police. Venus Shop Ltd. was represented by J. Billington.

DECISION

A single copy of the magazine Boys International, No. 4, was submitted to the Tribunal as a result of a complaint being made to the New Zealand Police, pursuant to section 22 of the Indecent Publications Act 1963. The magazine came before the Tribunal as a result of an adult member of the public. It was noted by the Tribunal that copies of Boys International had been declared unconditionally indecent in an earlier decision, i.e. Volume 2, Nos. 5 and 6 in Decision 851, and that these classifications had been upheld by the Supreme Court at Wellington in a judgment delivered on 23 January 1979 by His Honour Casey J. in Waverley Publishing Co. Ltd. v. The Comptroller of Customs.

The Court judgment stated that:

The poses in many of them are obviously contrived to give emphasis to the genital or (in some cases) the buttocks or anal areas . . . Their dominant effect is unequivocally of appeal to readers, with inclinations towards pederasty.

In its submission to the Tribunal the Venus Shop Ltd., other than making a general statement which indicated that “it is important to note that the shop at which these items were purchased is a shop that caters for the adult population and entry is restricted to those of 18 years or over”, did not make a specific submission on Boys International.

The Tribunal has noted that the copy under consideration is similar in content to the previous copies which were classified as indecent, a decision which was upheld by the Supreme Court two years ago. The Tribunal cannot see any reason for a change in its attitude towards the copy under consideration, and to be consistent with its earlier decision therefore classifies Boys International, No. 4, as indecent.

DISTRICT COURT JUDGE W. M. WILLIS,
Chairman.

Panguru High School Committee of Management Notice 1981

PURSUANT to regulation 3 (1) of the Education (Committee of Management) Regulations 1981, and a resolution of the Board, the Auckland Education Board hereby gives the following notice.

NOTICE

1. (i) This notice may be cited as the Panguru High School Committee of Management Notice 1981.

(ii) This notice shall come into force on the 1st day of August 1981.

2. The Committee of Management of Panguru High School shall be constituted as follows:

(a) One member appointed by the Auckland Education Board;

(b) One member elected by the teachers of the staff of the school;

(c) Six members elected by the parents of students attending the school;

(d) One member co-opted by the Committee of Management itself.

Dated at Auckland this 23rd day of June 1981.

M. A. ALLEN, Chief Executive Officer.
Auckland Education Board.

Reservation of Land

PURSUANT to the Land Act 1948, and to a delegation from the Minister of Lands, the Assistant Director of Land Administration of the Department of Lands and Survey hereby sets apart the land, described in the Schedule hereto, as a reserve for Government Purpose (wildlife management).

SCHEDULE

SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—WIAKATANE DISTRICT

17.3000 hectares, more or less, being Section 13, Block V, Galatea Survey District. Part certificate of title, Volume 631, folio 157. Part New Zealand Gazette 1967, page 1434. S.O. Plan 50741.

Dated at Wellington this 29th day of June 1981.

W. J. F. BISHOP,
Assistant Director of Land Administration of the Department of Lands and Survey.

(L. and S. H.O. Res. 2/6/35; D.O. 8/5/267/43)

Reservation of Land

PURSUANT to the Land Act 1948, and to a delegation from the Minister of Lands, the Assistant Director of Land Administration of the Department of Lands and Survey hereby sets apart the land, described in the Schedule hereto, as a reserve for scientific purposes.

SCHEDULE

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT—WALLACE COUNTY

13.104 hectares, more or less, being Section 37, Block I, Lillburn Survey District. S.O. Plan 9929.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of June 1981.

W. J. F. BISHOP,
Assistant Director of Land Administration,
Department of Lands and Survey.

(L. and S. H.O. Res. 13/7/3; D.O. 8/5/97)