Tax on Amusements
“The first positive instance of New Zealand missing a top overseas touring stage entertainment because Of the Government’s policy of refusing to grant exemption from amusement tax is the Old Vic Company now playing in Australia,” said Mr D. S. Campbell, president of Zealand branch of the British Drama League. “This is the reason they are not coming to N)w Zealand,” said Mr Campbell who returned from Sydney on Tuesday night. “They told me that if they had had any guarantee against loss here they would have come.” Mr Campbell said he had no hesitation in judging the company’s production of “The Merchant of Venice” as easily the best Shakespearean production he had seen.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27669, 27 May 1955, Page 16
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