MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLII, Issue 39, 3 October 1917, Page 575

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

Promotions. To the Rank of Senior Sergeant. No. 512. Sergeant McKeefrey, Michael, as from Ist April. 1917, his promotion having been deferred on account of ill health. No. 622. Sergeant Jackson, David, as from Ist September, 1917. To the Rank of Chief Detective. No. 697. Detective-Sergeant Mcllveney, James, as from Ist September, 1917. To the Rank of Detective-Sergeant. No. 1133. Detective Cameron, Donald, as from Ist September, 1917.

Retirement on Pension under Section 35, Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act, 1908. No. 332. Constable Bogue, Daniel. 30th September, 1917.

Resignations. No. 2066. Constable Fahey, James Edward. 19th September, 1917. No. 1690. Constable Moroney, Peter. 30ch September, 1917. No. 1923. Constable Porter, Ernest Edgar. 30th September, 1917.

Station opened. Takapau (Napier District).

Station closed. Mangatainoka (Wellington District.

Censorship of Cinematograph films. With reference to the regulations under the Cinemato" graph-film Censorship Act, 1916, published in Police Gazette > 1916, pages 664-666, the Crown Law Office advises that clause 12 of the regulations, which requires that a copy of the Censor’s certificate of approval be screened with each film, is ultra vires. It is therefore nor, an offence to exhibit a censored film without the Censor’s certificate attached. When a film is exhibited without such certificate, the proprietor should be asked to produce the Censor’s certificate of approval, and, if he is unable to do so, inquiry should be made by telegraph from the Under-Secretarv, Internal Affairs Department, whether the film has been censored. If it has not been censored, then proceedings should be taken for an offence against section 7 of the Act. In any such prosecution it may be anticipated that the accused will admit that the film had not been censored, for if he refused to make such admission the only result would be an adjournment of the case in order to obtain the evidence of the Censor, and the heavy costs so incurred would fall upon the accused. J. O’Donovan, Commissioner of Police. Wellington, 27th September, 1917. (P. 17/1351.)

Motor Regulation Act, 1908. The distinguishing letters and numerals assigned to the Ka ranga County Council have been extended from K 1 to 500 to K 1 to 1000. (P. 16/969.)