Former N.Z. Man Gets Publicity Under Obscene Publications Act
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 9.3 a.m. LONDON, Friday. ERIC PARTRIDGE, formerly of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, who established the Seholartis Press at Bloomsbury, has been the recipient of unenviable publicity. The police seized a stock novel, “The Sleeveless Errand,” by Norah James, under the Obscene Publications Act. The problem of the censorship of literature has also been raised in an acute form by the seizure of D. H. Lawrence’s manuscript poems entitled “Pansies,” under the authority of the Home Office. The poems were contained in a registered postal packet, and were seized during their passage from Italy. It is understood that the action of the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, will be challenged in the House of Commons.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 596, 23 February 1929, Page 9
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129Former N.Z. Man Gets Publicity Under Obscene Publications Act Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 596, 23 February 1929, Page 9
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