PICTURE PRICES.

Grey River Argus, 30 April 1931, Page 3

PICTURE PRICES.

(To the Editor-. sir.—Considering the fame of the present picture, the increase in price does not seem to me to warrant the growls in to-day’s paper by a coufle of correspondents. If they don’t want to pay, they have only to stay away, I am not indeed cue of those who go to every new picture. It is too costly. I go occasionally when there is i one out of the ordinary. It seems • queer to me when people, who spend every week six or seven shillings on the pictures, growl al an extra few j pence. It seems like swallowing a' camel and straining at a gnat. I I reckon there is too much picturegoing. A modest increase in price now and again is a good corrective. It is ' veiy thoughtful of the picture, people j to take it on themselves to show the inveterate fans they should study econ- I omv occasionally. The present picture I has not cost me one p«-iiny. —I am, etc., , SUPPLY AND DEMAND. (To the Editor). Sir.— I agree with the writers in yesterday’s paper that the picture pro-, printers of are exploiting rhe public in their prices. When they i think they have a good picture, up go rhe prices’ They pay no- more for the I pictures here than they do in other towns, and why should Greymouth ; people pay more? A refusal to pay the prices for a .few weeks would show the public disapproval. It’s alnut time they put comfortable seats in the [ present building and altered the floor; to a sloping o:ie so that everyone I could see.—Thanking you for your space* I am, etc., J. WILLIAMS, I Seven Mile, i