FILM CENSORSHIP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 2

FILM CENSORSHIP.

fPer- Pnuw .Association.) •> • , v . . WECIJJfGTON, this day. The Minister of tnteVnal Affairs/Mr Russell, has replied to a letter, f rom t\ e recent conference of local educational and social.bodies, relative toSpS tjoii of the Film, Censorship Act Mr Raissell says thatr^ince the appointment of the censor otliere, lias b*6nr. a general improvement in the standard of films showivto, the public. Owners of fimt , have the ; .ri g ht,of appeal, but in. only one instance has it been i excised. The board of appeal upheldthe censor's dec* s^on in,that case, The proposal of; the * conference to .gjveth? rigUf- o f ,^1! to .local bodies, education? boards religious bodies appearsvto: Mr-Russell to te ainworkaWe Th e a% Bors%8 ors% is being steadily Mrden.ed..up t ,with a view pf , reaehnig st Aard^S Alimster as uimble v for reasofe • even tb promise the. introduction of the Wising tion suggested; n«ither ; is it necessary to amend the :.lan- to give the" police and municipal authorities. tW. furfe. pbwers ask-ed for. Owing to thevdifficiitv «« obtaining an agreement of opinion, &i s . latibn dealing Svitlx posters and adler- ' tisements of an alleged offensive a.ut demoralising tendency ; would in the ribE S ° pinioli ' b^ Praotically imjws-