Smoking in Theatres

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 195, 15 May 1936, Page 13

Smoking in Theatres

Sir, —"Broader View’s” signature is a misnomer, for the writer’s own view is narrowed down to his —or her —own desires and appetite. Personally I think that auy person, man or woman, who smokes in an enclosed space, be it theatre or bus, unless in compartments provided for such indulgence, is lacking in good taste, to put it mildly. And. that one of such offenders should ease his —or her—frayed feelings by jibing at New Zealand generally, is quite in keeping with the character expressed in the letter. New Zealand, as most worth-while people know, was colonised in the first place bj’ the best classes, both of workers and the progressive upper classes of England, and we, the descendants of such people, cannot be sneered at for trying to adhere to traditions of decency handed down from such worthy forbears, and in this cigarettefogged, cocktail-polluted present age, to keep our own atmosphere clean. —I am, <!t *' A DESCENDANT OF PIONEERS. Waipukuraii.