CHILDREN AND PICTURE SHOWS

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13422, 8 July 1911, Page 6

CHILDREN AND PICTURE SHOWS

UNDESIRABLE FILMS. Government Censorship Advocated. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 8. The ministers of religion and headmasters of the schools of Rangiora submitted to the Borough Council last night a protest against the character of the pictures shown at the free entertainments during the Coronation festivities. It was alleged that certain films were utterly unfit for exhibition to children. The Council was urged to prevent the exhibition of such pictures in Raugiora, and Government censorship over moving pictures was advocated. Ultimately the Council decided to call a public meeting “to initiate a movement against the exhibition of pictures of a demoralising tendency.”