SUNDAY PICTURES
CONCESSION FOR COAST. (Special to "Star.”) WELLINGTON, July 24. The principle of Sunday picture shows seems to have been admitted by the Legislative Council in the action it took this afternoon. The Hon. W. H. Mclntyre moved that there should be added to the Police Offences Amendment Bill a clause which permits the Minister for Justice to issue licenses for Sunday picture shows. Mr Mclntyre said that it was the custom to have picture shows in certain mining towns on Sundays, and they served the great purpose of brightening the dull life of those villages. No charge was made but admission was by silver coin. People went from church to the pictures, and the idea worked well, till someone compelled the police to prosecute. Life was so hard for men and women living in these bleak, gardenless, cheerless places that he wanted to see the pictures allowed on Sundays, the only day on which all hands could attend. That was his reason for moving as he did.
The motion to add the clause was carried by 17 votes to 8.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1923, Page 3
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