“MOST OBJECTIONABLE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 285, 22 February 1928, Page 1

“MOST OBJECTIONABLE”

METHODISTS ON MOVIES PASSING THE CENSOR Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. To-day. The Methodist Conference considered the report of its Temperance and Morals Committee on films and posters. The committee stated that there were evidences that films of most objectionable quality were still passing the censor, rpHE report was supported by various speakers, but the president, the Rev. W. J. Elliott, said he had gone to a few so-called “doubtful" pictures, and had not seen much in them to cavil at. The conference proceeded to discuss the showing of films on Sunday, especially on the West Coast and in the King Country. The question was referred to the Temperance and Morals Committee. LICENSING BILL The Methodist Conference decided to support the New Zealand Alliance In pressing for the reictroduction of a favourable Licensing Bill next session. A resolution proposing the abolition of the Legislative Council was not carried, being received with much laughter. The conference set up a committee to act for the Methodists in pressing for the reintroduction of a Bill similar to that passed by the House, but “killed” by the Legislative Council, last session. SUPERNUMERARY FUND The Supernumerary Fund Board reported on the request of the conference for a new valuation of the fund, with a view to ascertaining whether it would be possible to increase annuities. The report stated that the board expressed its emphatic conviction that the time had not arrived to incur the expense of a new valuation of the I fund. The following weie appointed as the board for 1928: The connexional secretary and the Revs. W. Baumber, J Guy, S. Lawry and W. Greensiade, and Mesrs. G. Bowron, A. F. Drayton, A. Borrows, P. W. Sharpe, H. W. Heslop and H. P. Lawry, and a minister to be nominated.