BOOKSELLERS - COXFEHENCT
AUCKLAND, -tan. 5
The sixth annual conference of tho I New Zealand Retail Booksellers’ Association opened here to-day, the President, .Mr H. (■. South, presiding. A welcome was extended on behalf of tho city. The President, in his opening speech, remarked that New Zealand had the highest per capita average of took readers in the world. In the last 15 years, the hooks imported into the Dominion had increased in value two and a half times, and the population increase during the same period had grown only one and a half times. He dealt with the efforts of the Association to keep a check on prurient and sex-spiced novels, and said that the out-and-out sex novel was disappear!" to give place to a healthier tone, which was coming into novel literature.
The conference then went into committee.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1927, Page 4
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