DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1933, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

[per press association.] OVERSEAS PASSAGE SWINDLE AUCKLAND, August 9. After describing the actions of Harold Bradley Brownrigg, as those of a “barefaced swindler,” Mr Justice Herdman sentenced Brownrigg, who was found guilty of theft, to two years hard labour. The prisoner was concerned with the company known as the “Overseas Passages,” and was found guilty on a charge of theft of £l2 from R- G. K. Manning, by falsely representing that the company could supplj' him with a passage to England for £25. FILMS INDUSTRY. WELLINGTON, August 9. Protests against unfair competition with which the legitimate pictuie theatres had to cope, owing to travelling cinemas, announced as industrial exhibitions, and by certain organisations associated with schools and religious bodies, were made at the half-yearly conference of New Zealand Motion Picture Exhibitors’ Association, to-day. The action of the executive in endeavouring to bring this kind of competition under control, was endorsed. The matter of theatre licensing and the -ecent decision of the Supreme Court relative to the Order-in-Council limiting the number of theatres in any one locality, was reviewed at some length. It was decided to cooperate with the Government in any reasonable movement to prevent overseating in any locality, without the fullest inquiry.