CENSORSHIP OF PLAYS
MINISTER WELCOMES A SUGGES- ' TION. Dominion Special. Auckland, December t>. The Auckland Council of Christian' Congregations has received a letter from the Minister of Justice (Hon F. J. Rolleston), in which he said: —"I shall be pleased to consider your suggestion that the law should be amended to provide for a representative board of censors | to read all plays before they are introduced into New Zealand. I admit the great difficulty of dealing with this class of thing, and one is always confronted with the fact that a prosecution, successful or unsuccessful, would only result, rn a play receiving a big advertisement.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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