PICTURE CENSORSHIP

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 5

PICTURE CENSORSHIP

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON. July 9. A deputation representing the various churches and religious organisations of the Dominion waited on Alri X r- Russell, Minister for Internal Affairs, to-day to urge a more rigid censorship of moving pictures. The deputation asked that instead of one censor a board of three should be appointed, one of them a lady The Minister replied that it was most undesirable that anything transgressing the laws of decency should be shown, and that he would bring the proposal to establish a board of censors before the Cabinet.