FILM POSTERS

Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 5

FILM POSTERS

ADVERTISING HOARDINGS .CITY COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION The General Committee of the Gjty Council will report at next Wednesday’s meeting that it has considered the question of film posters on _ advertising hoardings, the opinion being expressed that in the case of . the George street hoarding there were substantial grounds for reviewing the hoarding license' in view of the close proximity of the boarding to the school. This aspect had been brought notice of the licensee. In accordance with instructions the committee considered the letter from the Dunedin Presbytery in which a protest was made against the nature of the fill?! posters displayed on advertising hoardings,' more particularly tho hoarding in George street near the public school. Under the provisions of the “ Cinematograph Films Act, 1928,” it was the duty of . the Censor of Falms appointed under that Act to censor not only all cinematograph films, but film posters and other advertising matter used or intended to be used in relation to any film. Any person exhibiting uncensored films committed a breach of the The extent of the Council’s control was therefore limited to the issue of the license for the hoarding, and in that connection the committee was of the opinion that in the case of the George street hoarding there was substantial grounds _ for reviewing the hoarding license in view of the close proximity of the hoarding to the school. This aspect of the matter had therefore been brought to _ the notice of the licensees, with an intimation that, in the event of there being renewed complaints, action _ would bo taken to deal with the hoarding license. The license expired at an. early date.