PRUDERY IN FEILDING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 257, 23 October 1908, Page 2

PRUDERY IN FEILDING.

A BABY IN THE NUDE. By Telegraph.—Press Association, tedding, Last Night. Before Mr. A. D. Thompson, S.M., A. 0. Morton, a local photographer, was called on to show why a certain photograiph should not be destroyed us obscene. The picture was an enlargement o! a photograph of an eight months' old boy, dressed in a uoll's uook wnich did not serve its proper purpose. Attached to Wile picture was a card emphasising the fact that the boy was only eight months old. The defence put in several of Gustavo Dorc's drawings and a quotation from Kuskin on painting the nude form. The Magistrate held that lie'should rely on his own opinion regarding the picture and not take evidence. In his opinion it was clear, and he decided that the picture was indecent and had been rightly seized by warrant. The pose of the picture and the arrangement of the drapery brought certain organs into prominence, and he could not understand such a picture being exhibited in view of young people. There was nothing indecent in a picture of a young child scrawling on the floor in a natural position, but this picture was a very different matter. He ordered the picture to be destroyed. Defendant intimated that he would appeal.