FILM POSTER CENSORSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 17

FILM POSTER CENSORSHIP.

REGULATIONS PASSED, BUT NOT GAZETTED. EXCHANGES WILLING TO HELP. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. Representations which were recently made to the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, for the censorship of -film posters and a review of the censorship of films have been anticipated by the Film Exchanges Association. Months ago the various film exchanges completed work on draft regulations governing the procedure in dealing Avith film posters. Provision for this censorship was made in legislation passed two years back, which has never been put into operation because of lack of staff and accommodation in the film censor's office. The exchanges are willing to cooperate with the Government in facilitating censorship of posters, though they do not see why film posters alone should be censored and not other classes of posters. However, nothing can be done in the direction of gazetting the regulations and placing them in force until new quarters are provided for the censor and his staff, and everything now turns upon the Government's decision to provide these.