ANTI-RAT FILM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 193, 16 August 1922, Page 11

ANTI-RAT FILM.

I'JMI'AOANDA ON THE SCREEN. For the fir=t time the New Zealand Covi'rnniont. or the Health Department, an- using ;hc picture screen as a medium for propaganda, and yesterday a private showing was made of an English liL.-ii iniulc by the Incorporated Vermin Oppression Society. This antir.it picture, which lNuilit. in length, was purchased l.y Sir -lames Allen. High C'onimiesionci for New Zealand, for the Government t" '•<■ -ercened in every main town in the Dominion, in an endeavour in impress on lucal bodies und the jhil>l i■ - generally the destroying i|Ualities or' the rodent. Dr. X. .1. Hughe.-. Medical Ollicer of Healtli. Dr. 15 .> v.l. bis a.-sistant. and several saniiary in.-p-vtors were present at thi> morning'- -crccniiig and ex-pre.-wed tlr.-iv : .ati-factinn with ihc tilm. The (■'iivernnient 1-a- made arrangement.- with the New Zealand -Picture Supplier. Wellington. In wreen the tilm a.: all theatre, on their Nvw Zealand circuit. The Health Department have already U-ued to the various (luolic bodies, in\-itat:■ n- to be present when the film is reloaded at the Strand Theatre on Friday noxi.