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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1930, Page 5

CRICKET PITCHES. “I am still a believer in the one solution to quicken the game! Natural wickets every time. No top-dressing. No matter what experts may say .is to the natural wickets not lasting three days, the one and only solutim for c'< finite results is to return to the oldstyle natural wickets. May they return quickly!”—-Lord Hawke. INDIANS PREFER. THEIR OWN FILMS. “In the year ending March 3lst. 1927, no fewer than 155 indigenous feature films had been produced'loß in India proper and 47 in Burma. The number of feature films produced in the United Kingdom was but 48 in the calendar year 1927, and 26 in the. year before. This comparison of the English and Indian figures will, I think, be as surprising to you as it was to us. To gauge the hold which Indian films have won on the affections of Indian audiences we must know what proportion of the available screen-time they command. Actual figures are not available. but a close approximation can be obtained by comparing the footage of Indian films examined by the Boards of Censors with the toal footage so examiniH. The figures are, I think, very remarkable. In 1921-22 the Indian footage represented 9.03 per cent, of the total, and in 1927-28 no less than 21.2 per cent. The actual f ootage rose from less than half a. million to nearly 1£ millions, or by over 200 per cent.”—M. A. M. Green, I.C. S., a member of a committee appointed to investigate and report on the film business in India,