SMOKING IN CINEMAS

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30364, 13 February 1964, Page 18

SMOKING IN CINEMAS

Britain Will Not Prohibit

(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter —Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 11. A suggestion that smoking should be banhed in British cinemas and theatres was rejected in the House of Lords today. Lord Newton, Parliamentary secretary, Ministry of Health, told Viscount Massereene and Ferrard: “This is a matter for persausion and not prohibition. A health education campaign is being vigorously developed.” Lord Massereene recalled that the French had for a long time prohibited smoking in cinemas and theatres. “Is it not really time that the Government gave some sort of lead to the anti-smoking campaign by doing something definite?” he asked. The Earl of Swinton asked whether, while the present Government lasted, people might continue to enjoy a little freedom and exercise of free wilt Lord Newton agreed but told Baroness Summerskill, who pointed out that experience so far had shown that in public health matters there had to be compulsive legislation, “I do not take so authoritarian a point of view.”

Veterinary Lecturer.— Dr. H. G. Rees, a veterinary surgeon in Whangarei, has been appointed senior lecturer in veterinary science at the veterinary faculty in _Massey University of Manawatu, at Palmerston North. —N.Z.P.A.