FILM AND BOOK CENSORSHIP
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH’S VIEWS “The censorship of films and literature is a very difficult question, because of the absence of any clearly defined and generally accepted standards,” said the report of the public questions committee, presented to the Presbyterian General Assembly in Christchurch yesterday. “Both the committee and the council are in touch with the various interests involved, and hope that some agreed plan may be worked out which will safeguard the true interests of the public, especially the young. “It is true that certain forms of undesirable literature, especially of the periodical type, find their way into the Dominion, and it is also true that vulgarity is a feature of some New Zealand literature. The remedy is not easily found. The police will institute proceedings if their attention is called to publications which are obscene, and that is the most effective way of dealing with them. But there is no protection against vulgarity and offences against good taste and the finer feelings, except in the raising of the general standard.” The report was received by the Assembly.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25328, 30 October 1947, Page 6
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