NATIONAL EFFICIENCY
SPORTS AND AMTJSEMEKTS.
Mr. J. A. Frostick, Efficiency Commissioner for Canterbury, in reply to questions put by a Christchurch reporter, eaid that lie had nothing further to announce as to the Efficiency Board's report to the Government on eports and amusements. The report was submitted early in May. It was fov "the Government now to deal with the problem.
Asked particularly for information as to the position of picture shows, he said that the board had tried to look at every question from the point of view of national efficiency. Tn all its deliberations, it was guided not by eentiment. but by the call for national efficiency. Tt had nothing asainst amusements generally, and it did not wish to interfere with them unless they interfered with, the country's production. That seemed to be a clear and logical position to take. In reply to another question, he said that he was unable to express an opinion on the resnlt of the meeting in Christchurch on Thursday evenine to : consider six o'clock closing, but he could? state that the takine of evidence on tho / liauor question had been completed br' the hoard, and the members now were ' considering Hie question, in order to frame their to the Government.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3107, 11 June 1917, Page 4
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208NATIONAL EFFICIENCY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3107, 11 June 1917, Page 4
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