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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21236, 7 August 1934, Page 12

The concern felt by many people in regard to certain types of motion pictures was referred to by Mr W. H. Bennett, when speaking at the opening of the Plaza Theatre, in Wellington. There had been considerable controversy and correspondence between the college authorities and those responsible for the exhibition of films in the Dominion, he said. The censor and the advisory board played their part "by classing some films as being more suitable for adults. It then became the responsibility of parents to say whether 5 their children should be allowed to see a picture so classified. If parents neglected their duty in the matter, it might become the duty of theatre managers to refuse admission to those of tender years unless accompanied by their parents. However, he thought the position was safeguarded S by the censor and the advisory board, ! and in his view the motion picture i" Now Zealand had • bright ;fu*«r#y,