FILM INDUSTRY
ASSISTANCE OFFERED
The Film Industry Board of New Zealand, representing all sections of the motion picture industry, "nas written to the Prime Minister offering its wholehearted assistance in the crisis.
"If there is any service which may be regarded as useful involving the use of films and the screens of our theatres, we wish to assure the Government that they are unreservedly at its disposal," says the letter. "We recognise the heavy responsibility resting on the shoulders of the Government during this trying time, and desire to express our appreciation of what is being done and to assure you of our loyal and unswerving support."
This offer, for which the Acting Prime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser) has expressed the Government's cordial thanks, is.made on behalf of the Film Industry Board over the signatures of Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., chairman, and Mr. W. J. Fife, secretary.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 16
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149FILM INDUSTRY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 16
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