Card for children wanted
PA Wellington The Government should help provide age identification cards for children, according'to the secretary of the Society for Promotion of Community Standards, Miss Patricia Bartlett. The cards could be checked by staff at cinemas showing restricted films, Miss Bartlett said. She had written to the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Highet) asking that the Government provide a $50,000 subsidy for the cards. Cinema staff were unable to check the ages of children attending films classified Rl3.
“Under-age children are gaining admittance because it is difficult to distinguish some 11-year-olds from 13-year-olds,” she said. “Cinemas cannot expect these children to carry a birth certificate or a driver’s licence and have no way of establishing a child’s age.” The voluntary age card should be made available for $1 to those parents who asked for them, Miss Bartlett said.
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Press, 20 October 1981, Page 28
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