BRITISH FILMS
COMMITTEE SET UP. vßritish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 4. Tlie Colonial Secretary has set up a committee with the following terms oi reference: “To examine the arrangements existing for the supply and censorship of cinematograph films for public exhibition in colonies, protectorates and mandated territories .and to consider in what way these arrangements could be improved, with special reference to the following points ;— Firstly, ,tlie desirability of developing the uses of the cinematograph as an instrument of education in the widest sense, and, secondly, the desirability, on political as well as economic grounds, of encouraging the exhibition of British films,”
Cap. W. Brass, M.P., will lie chairman of the committee, and the other members will include Sir Tlesketh Bell, late Governor of Mauritius; Sir Chnrle s O’Brien, late Governor of Barhadoes: Major Buxton, late Lieutenant-Govern-or of the Southern Provinces of Nigeria; Mr Creighton, of the Empire Marketing Board; and Mr Beatty, late of the Malayan Civil Service.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1929, Page 3
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