DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1916, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

CENSORSHIP OF FILMS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, September 12. The Hon. 0. W. Russell, in a statement regarding the censorship of films, said that regulations had been completed and would be gazetted this week. Provision had been made for the establishment of a Board of Appeal, eornsisting of three persons. The following will be the scale of fcß": J —Foi' examination by the censoi the fee will bo os for the first thousand feet or part thereof, and 2s Od for every five hundred feet after the first thousand. The same fee | will be charged for the re-examination by ' t'h« censor of films after excision by the owners. For an appeal there will be a fee up to 10s per thousand feet, with a minimum charge of 30s for each film, i'rov-sion has been made for urgency examinations within forty-eight 'hours, when a small additional fee will be ClUUgcu. ' STRIKE AGITATOR FINED. Wellington. September 12. Judgment was given to-day in the case against Edward Kennedy, secretary to the Woollen Mills Union, who was charged with aiding a strike at the Petoue mills. The Magistrate 'held that the evidence showed that Kennedy had aided the strike, but took into consideration the fact that he might have thought he was acting legally. Defendant was lined £lO.