WILFUL DAMAGE AT PICTURE THEATRE.
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Press Association Telegram. DANNEFIIIKE, July 16. The decision of Mr. Page. .. was given to-day in the unusual cam of interest to picture theatre proprietors. Thomas Augustus Pethoiiek. formerly of Dannevirke, was charged with having wilfully done damage to the electric installation of The Arcadia nicture theatre to the extent of two shillings and sixT '°Tlie evidence .slum-;, that on the evening on which i h‘e . ' cadia Picture Company distcr.-cd with Petheriok’s services the lights in the theatre suddenly went out at lie end of the performance, before the audience had got out of the muldincr. Petherick. when requested to piik on the electric light for the purposes of a directors’ mee.mg refused, and subsequently it aas found that a wire had been cut m the operating box, which affected the lights, and would have prevented the showing of pictures on the following night hut hr the d.oM-v erv of the fault. . , His Worship convict, id I and fined him £o and costs ■ ■ 6d. in default 14 ’av& imp* !’onmeut. Security was bxed for ap peal. -
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Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5227, 17 July 1919, Page 6
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184WILFUL DAMAGE AT PICTURE THEATRE. Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5227, 17 July 1919, Page 6
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