IS AN OPERA HOUSE A FACTORY?

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1063, 28 February 1911, Page 4

IS AN OPERA HOUSE A FACTORY?

HIS WORSHIP WILL,.CONSIBER. ; (By TeleErftDh- - SDCc!alvCorresDondent.r "'. : . Palmerston/jFebruarj-IS?. . The adjourned case in which" the Pal- ■ merstpa Borough' Corincil : . «;as charged; with a breach of the Factories Act, in. failing to register the ! Opera Honse, ■ wherein electricity was generated.. ior.' ! showing moving pictures, etc.,Jagain came . up for hearing at the Magistrate's Court.:, to-day.- ■'■■■■ .-.'; ;■■■'.'■.;-.■"■ ■■'■■ ;".'"■■' : \.' The inspector stated' that Ins Department held that; a nowcr-house where :■ electricity was sold to -.'visiting, theatrical ' companies (through being included in the ; rent), and also;to Datrons of. the: pictures'. (by being used! for thakineinatograph.)' came within the.scope of tho Act. ■•;'. >'-■■■' The borough solicitor, «ho.' .'defended the cose, contended that thi* onners of I'm >' Opera House did not soil 'electricity, ;twi, no.work was performed'soch;as •ij'.usualiy ' performed in'n factory." .Be-'ciioted :cafi.;;, where doctors uftd the X rays, wher/j - : oculists usc<l elee'ricity for the-in«r*i'ti<!u-ot the eye, and hotplkoepcrs who «»., d in,their hotels, etc. Thofe charce<l n--, for inspection, or for the u=o of tow*, and their cases nerp on evactlj th' , lines as tho Opera House. If hr« \Y< ■-> ip held that tho Opera w.>' ! ; .'j'.l ; i registration, then these other p'acx-- i-,"f, also bR registered. ' fris Worship (Mr. .\. P. S.M.) took time to consider h:s juils incnt. "-.