FILM COMBINE.
j STATU INTERFERENCE URGED. -j- ■ By Cable—Press Association—Copyright • Received 18, 0.40 p.m. v Sydney, December 18. A deputation of picture bliow proprietors asked the Attorney -General to recognise films as a necessary commodity. It was alleged that the film com. bine were passing on the iiity per cent. . increase in the iilm duty, which really 1 meant a protective measure for the )local industry on showmen with regard to millions of feet of films whereon no I extra duty has been paid. This meant that the combine were reaping an increase of two or three hundred per cent., and would mean closing the shows, throwing out live hundred musicians. '.l he Attorney-General replied that ho was preparing a Bill to deal with combine;!, including the pictures. He n). that the latter be submitted to the Commodities Commission, on whose icconuncuulioii he \v mid a .t.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 166, 19 December 1914, Page 5
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147FILM COMBINE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 166, 19 December 1914, Page 5
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