be cancelled.

Surely a simpler, faster, and safer procedure would be to make initial
registration more difficult and subsequent deregistration more speedy.

Amendments recently made to the laws of various Australian States should
result in a general improvement in the standard of publications
distributed in Australia, and consequently in New Zealand. On the other
hand, this tightening of the law may induce distributors to dump in New
Zealand publications for which they have no longer a market in
Australia.

A banning, rather than a censorship, of printed matter injurious to
children should be the subject of immediate legislation for three
reasons:

(_a_) To prevent the Dominion being used as a market to offset any
trade lost in some Australian States;

(_b_) To encourage the efforts of those people who seek to lead
children through good reading to better things; and

(_c_) To let publishers know that the time has passed when
publications likely to be injurious to the minds of children and
adolescents may be distributed by them with impunity.

In order to meet the situation, it would be desirable for the Government
to promote special legislation along the lines of the Victorian Police
Offences (Obscene Publications) Act 1954.