AFFIDAVITS Affidavit of H.L. Kelly - 29.8.1955 I, HERBERT LESLIE KELLY of 37 Montpelier Street Clayfield Brisbane in the State of Queensland a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and a member of the firm of Cannan & Peterson of 319-325 Queen Street Brisbane aforesaid Solicitors make oath and say as follows:— 1. My said firm is acting as Solicitors for Transport Publishing Co.Pty.Ltd, of 26 Hunter Street Sydney in the State of New South Wales and I have the conduct of this matter. 2. The said Company is the eublisher of literature specified respectively by the names "Real Love" "Romance Story" "Real Story" "Real Romances" and "Love Experiences". 3. By an Order dated the twentieth day of December 1954 and published in the Queensland Government Gazette Volume CLXXXVII Number 173 page 2213 on the twentyfifth day of December 1954 the Literature Board of Review constituted under and for the purposes of The Objectionable Literature Act of 1954" prohibited the distribution in Queensland of all rid every the literature being writings published periodically specified in the Schedule of the said Order for that the said literature is in the opinion of the Board objectionable. 4. The said Order further provided that it applied with respect to all copies and every part number or series thereof whether published theretofore or thereafter. 5. A true copy of the said Order published in the said Government Gazette is hereto annexed and marked "A". 6. The said publictions "Real Love" "Romance Story" "Real Story" "Real Romances" and "Love Experiences" are specified in the Schedule of the said Order. 7. It is provided by Section 11 of "The Objectionable Literature Act of 1954" that a person who feels aggrieved by an order made by the said Board in respect of any literature may of Order to Review as if that order were an order made by justices sitting as a court of Petty Sessions and that Part IX of "The Justices Acts 1886 to 1949" shall, with and subject to all necessary adaptations of the provision thereof apply and extend accordingly. 8. It is provided by part IX of “The Justices Acts 1886 to 1949” that a Judge of the Supreme Court may grant an Order to Review calling upon a party interested in maintaining a conviction order or warrant of a justice sitting as a Court of Petty Sessions to show cause why the conviction order or warrant should not be reviewed and that such Order to Review may be made returnable before the Supreme Court sitting as the Full Court or before a Judge sitting Court or Chambers. 262
The 1955 Romance Comics Trial
