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HOME SECRETARY’S STATEMENT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, March 6. The Public Morality Council including Church members, the Young Men’s and Woman's Christian Associations, Salvationists, teachers, etc., numbering 100, waited as a deputation on Sir W. Jovnson Hicks to-day, regarding immoral books and plays. Sir W. Joynson Hicks, in a long address, said: “Not merely can Magistrates order the destruction of obscene matter in books, but the publishers are personally liable to be fined. That is our first line of defence against the overwhelming attack of indecent literature at present launched. When people refer to the Home Secretary’s action in censoring books they little realise that if lie nbiogated his powers, England would be flooded with filth from the Continent.” Sir W. Joynson Hicks indicated that he is not inclined to alter the existing laws, or to impose a censorship.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 7
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143INDECENT LITERATURE Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 7
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