IMPORTED THEATRICAL POSTERS.

Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 816, 18 February 1916, Page 6

IMPORTED THEATRICAL POSTERS.

. A Hint to the Government. THE representatives of master printers made out a very strong case the other day for a higher tariff and closer - Customs scrutiny of imported printed matter for theatrical and. commercial purposes. At the present time we should do everything that is possible to encourage our own indusr tries. What excellent work can be turned out by Dominion manufacturers our readers, will be able to see for themselves at the Patriotic Exhibition, which opens at the Town Hall to-mor-row (Saturday)), an exhibition which we trust to. see thronged every day it is open. ■ *'.;*'.'*•.*■■ With regard to the theatrical' posters and printing . matter generally, upon which the'master printers have asked for a higher duty, most of. it could be- done equally as well here, and, ■: as for some, the crudely-coloured posters advertising certain plays, it would be all the better for the eommtmitv were it never imported at all. The theatrical firms, which make such enormous pronts out of this country, should be above the meanness of importing all their posters and . pictorial printing. They take away annually huge sums from this Dominion, and they do not leave behind any very large proportion of their takings, certainly no very generous proportion.