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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9147, 1 November 1919, Page 5

HARMFUL PICTURES. —: ♦. In a reference to tho need for a woman censor of picture films, the Bishop of Wellington (Dr Sprott) said at the meeting of the Society for the . Protection of Women and Children, | that for several years he had not been to a picture show, but he remembered o nthe last occasion he visited oneit was in a country town—a gruesome murder picture had been shown. He could not say whether that sort of thing was displayed now; but if bo, it was rather deplorable. He was amazed that people did not know tho psychological effect this sort of picture was likely to have upou tho youthful mind. Psychologists told lis that every mental impression wo received^ was indelible, ad that from time jtb time there come up "rushes" froiri tliis .subconsciousness. Now, those impressions received from gross pictures, were indelibly memorised by children, and would 1 involuntarily recur to.them from their subconscious region at odd times. That being so, it was most lamentable that we should not realise how important it was that children should bo protected from such thinga. (Anplanae.)