CONTINUOUS PICTURES.
WELLINGTON MANAGERS FINED[Per Press Association’.] WELLINGTON, April 4. Seven proprietors of picture theatres were charged ai the Magistrate s Court with opening during prohibited hours. The facts were admitted. The defence in two cases was tfciat the doors were opened a quarter of an horn’ early to let the people m out of the' rain, also that to open mean to open for tlie screening of pictures, and applied to the auditorium, not to tho ves- ( tibulc. , , Mr F. V. Frazer. S.M.. said that the word must be construed in the ordinary , sense. These casts would he dismissed.: as trivial. The oiner defendants plead- 1 ed guilty, and were fined £2 ard costs, j
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18066, 5 April 1919, Page 9
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116CONTINUOUS PICTURES. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18066, 5 April 1919, Page 9
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