FEWER SEX NOVELS
PUBLIC TASTE IMPROVES GOOD BOOKS APPRECIATED (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. “This is the age of biography, travel and memoir, and an astonishing number of this class of book is sold,” said Mr. H. C. South, Wellington, at the opening of a conference of the New Zealand Retail Booksellers’ Association here to-day. The general impression was that public taste in literature was rapidly improving. Books other than novels were becoming popular, and the demand for sex novels was on the decrease, though there remained many people who desired sensational reading. ! The Deputy-Mayor of Christchurch, I Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., who welcomed the 70 delegates, 'said: “1 was delighted to learn yesterday in conversation with an authority on the subject that the public taste in literature is steadily improving. It is good to know that the popularity of the old sex problem novel is decreasing, and that its place is being taken by a better class of novel. I was also pleased to learn of the increased attention of the public to New Zealand writers. New Zealand is still waiting fo* a writer who will do full justice to the spirit of the Dominion.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 7
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198FEWER SEX NOVELS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 7
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