ALLOTMENT OF THEATRE SEATS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 7

ALLOTMENT OF THEATRE SEATS.

; >IHECHRISTOHTJROH BY-LAW; ':;' '■ 7,:'VWI/MIiMBA™': ; P«K9';*'SBbqiiTlO>«o''.';':'\v' •'.'"•'•'■..;. r ; ;' --k' ChristohuroH, /February; 2: An attempt "was made at the iTheatre Royal last night "to thoroughly enforce the oity council's; by-law under which every person is held to be entitled to'a seat, the num,bor of which: corresponds to the/ticket received. /-.Many:, .patrons of ; the gallery: and 'stalls deoliued toocoupy the scats : tp;.which ; their 'tickets.; corresponded,, and ' there : was considerable confusion/. About .twenty'/'minutes to eight. c®loi;k the: council's inspectors declared .that it was impossible to. carry the: by-law into; effect, and gave-the representative, of, the .lessee permission to let people take -any seat's,available. ; ' /The Mayor,; in the courseW a statement to ■a - "Star"; reporter, to-day, : ' stated: : . ./ ■ ■;'■'•' ,: "The spirit of ; the : . by-law would : ; be: met ;by ';■■ having?ai-bos"plan for;the gallery and allowing people who bought pickets' during the day to reserve their 'seats.. There is .not' the least reason why ( thig should not: be .done.' It 'is 7 already ddno ! in other parts of the. world. 'The theatre'managers seem.to be 'laying 'down the rule that patrons ' who pay only one shilling are not entitled to "consideration.: The matter will come before tho by-law committee again'at its next meeting, and it may prove necessary to amend the' ■by-law in tho direction of making it's".requirements more specific. You can' bo quite 'sure ;that;. the matter is not going to rest whore iit is. 'In the meantime'l suppose that'things /will go on;as they were.'] : - .■ ■ '. ••> .-