INDECENT POSTCARDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8180, 13 August 1906, Page 2

INDECENT POSTCARDS.

Pkr Press Association. Wkllinuton, August 12. At tho Police Court, John Wilkinsou, a stationer, ol' A'ivian-slroet, was charged Willi having sold five postcards which were oE an indecent nature, The sale of the cards was admitted, but for the defence it was contended that there was nothing indecent in them. They were simply pictures of well-shaped women in tights, nothing more. Moreover, the Customs and tho I J ost Office had not objected to the curds His Worship said the duty of the Customs and the Post Office did not concern him, although he did not understand for one moment how the Post Officials let the cards before him through. What he had to deal with were the cards in question. Theso suggested to the people who bought them ideas which were immoral. He conyicted the defendant and fined him £5, with 7s costs. The amending Act of 1894, he said, provided for imprisonment without the option, and he hoped that tho police would lay an information under the Act if grossly immoral cards came under their notice.

Joseph Dachner was fined a similar amount for selling a postcard which was of an indecent nature.?