TELEGRAMS
APPEARED PERFECTLY SANE WAITED ALL NIGHT TO RESERVE SEATS. (BX T£LEGBAPH~-Br£cat, TO Till TOST.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The vogue of the queue is just now very strong in Auckland, so strong in fact that some persons of perfectly sane appearance commenced an. all-night vigil before the gates of Victoria Arcade at 9" o'clock on Thursday night in anticipation of the commencement of booking at 8 a.m. yesterday for the remainder of the Ascha-Btayton season. By 4 o'clock the qu«ue had swelled to about 30, and the pressure against the gate? grew greater and greater as daylight approached. A spirit of good humour prevailed throughout ac the sharing of rugs, pilows. 6tools, footwantiers, 4t«., testified. The regulations for booking having been relaxed to permit of e*«ry person booking 15 seate for each of the remaining performances comprising four plays, a total of nearly 1000 seate were booked by the first dozen people admitted. When the < booking office opened the queue continued throughout the day.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 71, 20 September 1912, Page 3
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