"BRITISH SENTIMENT."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 200, 24 August 1928, Page 8

"BRITISH SENTIMENT."

WANTED IN MOVING PICTURES MR. COATES' DECLARATION. OBJECTS OF THE QUOTA BILL. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. "As a son of British stock, and as a citizen of New Zealand, I say quite definitely that I want my children to see in motion pictures a little British sentiment." Loud applause greeted this statement when it was made by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, in the course of an ; address before the Dominion Conference of the New Zealand Political Reform League. »Mr. Coates had been discussing his policy of "less Government in business." He said that he had been informed that the Government legislation dealing with the motion picture industry was an interference with private business. "That may be true to a certain extent," he said, "but there comes a point sometimes in any industry when it is the duty of the Government to take an active interest. The real thought behind the bill the Governmet introduced is twofold: First, to endeavour to educate the children on right lines, to present to them the institutions and history of their own race; and, next, to encourage the producers in Great Britain to give us films worthy of our heritage. It is a case in which I think the Government is justified in intervening.