A NOVEL SEIZED
UNDER OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS ACT. (United Press Association—By Electric Tcleg. „ph—Copyright). LONDON, February 22. Eric Partridge recently of Hawke’s Bay, Now Zealand, who established a scholarship for the press at Bloomsbury, has been the recipient ol unenviable- publicity. The police seized a stock of the novel “The Sleeveless Erramltfj l».v Norali Janies, under the Obscene Publications Act.
The problem ol the censorship ol literature is also raised in an acute form by the seizure of the well known author David Herbert Lawrence’s manuscript of poems'! entitled “Pansies, under the authority of the Home Office. The poems were contained in a registered postal packet seized during the passage from Italy. It is understood the action ol the Home Secretary will he challenged in tin* Commons.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1929, Page 5
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126A NOVEL SEIZED Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1929, Page 5
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