FIGHT PICTURES.
SHOULD THEY BE PROHIBITED f Tho Finance Committee of tho City Council reported last night that they had received a resolution from the Wellington Presbytery expressing its strong disapproval of the recent Johnson-Jeffries ligtit in America, condemning such exhibitions as demoralising to the community, and urging the authorities' to prohibit the representation of the: contest by means of moving pictures in. New Zear land. Councillor Fletcher eaiil the Finance Committee should have had the courage of its opinions, and reported what it had done in the matter. The committee had passed a resolution to prohibit the' uko of the Town Hall for the pictures. Tho 1 Mayor said that - that resolution was not confirmed by the council. The matter was referred back to the committee, who had passed no resolution since, except one to receive the letter. The committee had no right to pass its first resolution, as no application had been received for the use of the Town Hall. - In reply to Councillor Fletcher, tho Mayor said he was quite agreeable that any resolution of the committee with regard to the letting .of the Town Hall for these i pictures should be, referred to the council for confirmation.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 893, 12 August 1910, Page 4
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