SAMPSON BENEFIT FUND

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1920, Page 2

SAMPSON BENEFIT FUND

The following subscriptions have been forwarded to this office in aid of the above fund:—

During the cessation of the electric light supply in Auckland on Wednesday, «a.used by the breakage of, a main lead, all the city theatres, with the exception of His Hajesty'e, which has its owu lighting plant, were plunged into darkness at eight o'clock. In some cases picture, entertainments were in progress, and in oth<w the performance had not yet begun. The people present were at first amused, and then settled down patiently 'o wait, a dim light being shed over the theatres by nlectric 'torches which, in some instances, were n'xed to shine on to On' scveeus, tho light thus being reHeoted. The orchestral* continued to play throughout the forty minutes of darkness, and although ' ticket-selling was suspended, the queues waited. Tha chief post office carried on business by the light of candles, while telegrams were examined by means of 1 a pocket torch. The lights at the Auckland HokDitai war* •extinguished, but fortunately no surgical operations were in progress, iltliough one *wai> about to start.

& s. Blundell Bros 5 5 J. Henrys 2 2 H 0 10 L.R. 0 10 MX ; 1 0 E.F.S 0 2 Total , 9 9. 9 9.