PICTURE FILM COMBINE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 December 1914, Page 4

PICTURE FILM COMBINE.

SYDNEY, Dec. 18

• A deputation of picture show proprietors asked the Attorney-General to recognise films as a necessary commodity It was alleged that the film, combine were passing en the- 50 percent. " increase in the film duty, which really meant a protective measure foi^ the local industry oh showmen with regard to millions of feet of films >%hereon no extra duty has been paid. This meant that the combine were reaping an increase •of two or three hundred per cent., and would mean .closing the shows, throwing out 500

musicians

The Attorney-General replied that he was preparing a Bill to deal witJ* combines, including pctures. He advised that the deputation's requestsshould be submitted to "the Commodities' Commission, on whosa recommendation he would act.