NUMBERED THEATRE SEATS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1908, Page 2

NUMBERED THEATRE SEATS.

THE CHEISTCHURCH INNOVATION. The steps taken by the Christchurch City Council in insisting that scats in all parts of the house of any theatre or other • place- of amusement shall bo numbered and practically reserved is beihg freely discussed. The Ohristchurch Council had had correspondence on this matter from the Theatre Royal Company and from the trustees of His Majesty's Theatre, also Mr. J. C. Williamson, urging that the proposal re numbering all seats in the theatres be reconsidered, but although this request was complied with the council decided to adhere to its original intention, and finally passed the oylaw as originally drafter. It comes into operation on Ist September iext, and reads as follows: — (1) The lessee of any building used as a public theatre or concert hall shall see that every seat therein intended for the use of the public is marked with or otherwise visibly distinguished by some particular number different from that of any other seat therein; but such seats may be grouped under letters of the alphabet or otherwise, and be numbered as of such groups respectively. (2) Such lessee shall cause to be furnished to • every person admitted to any building so used for the purpose of witnessing any public performance therein a ticket, with a number written or printed thereon of some one such seat in such building ; only one ticket shall be issued for any one seat in such building. (3) No person shall be admitted to such building without such a ticket as aforesaid. (4) Such person shall keep tho said ticket in his personal possession, and shall be entitled to use the seat referred to in the said ticket during the' whole of the performance. (5) Every such person shall, when occuping a seat in such building, exhibit the said ticket on demand to any inspector.