SUNDAY CINEMA BAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 165, 14 July 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

SUNDAY CINEMA BAN.

SUICIDE AFTER BROKEN ROMANCE.

Told by his sweetheart, Nellie Massie, a waitress, that she did not wish to have anything more to do with him, Alfred Smith (20), a master hairdresser, of High. Road, Leyton, threw himself from London Bridge and was drowned. At the inquest the girl's father, Mr. Edward Massie, a Scots piper, of Savona Place, Battersea, dramatically explained bis objections to the couple's engagement. "Since I came from Scotland two years ago," he exclaimed, "I have been up against this picture-house business on Sunday nights. The Church was neglected. I wrote to this young fellow. Sometimes Nellie came home at twelve o'clock on Sundays, while in Scotland we have to be home by nine o'clock." The Coroner (Dr. Waldo): I am afraid many people go to the pictures' instead of to church.

"U they do and go. on with it," shouted Mr. Maasie, "this is whore they will end." Dr. Waldo: The chief thing fgainst the engagement was because the young man went to the pictures instead of to church? —Not only so, but the late hoars. Mr. Massie added that the young man did go to church twice, but when he came away he said the minister knew nothing. A verdict was returned of suicide, there no evidence to Aow the state of