Motion Pictures Comi:.g To Onerahi

Northern Advocate, 19 July 1949, Page 6

Motion Pictures Comi:.g To Onerahi

1 Motion pictures will be screened at Onerahi for the first time on July 30, following advice received by the One- ' rahi Town Board at its meeting last night that a permit to screen movies had been granted. They will be of the 16mm size, and full-length programmes will be presented. For a start the pictures will be screened on Saturday nights only.

Projectionist will be Mr J. Unitt, of Whangarei, who has generously made his equipment available. Meanwhile, the Onerahi Progressive Society is making endeavours to arrange for a bus service from the Onerahi Town Hall, where the films will be screened, to the outlying areas, such as Sherwood Rise. The society confidently hopes that the people of Onerahi will support this facility, the obtaining of which has occupied the society for 12 months. . EXTRA MEETING ROOM Less pleasing to members was the practice of motorists in running their vehicles on to the grass verge laid down by the society about two years ago on the side of the main road between the post office and the Church of England.

It was felt that this was done out of thoughtlessness, and the society hoped that the practice would be discontinued. During the evening it was decided to grant the Onerahi Town Board £25 towards the cost of erecting an additional meeting room on to the town hall.

The society itself received a cheque for £3O from the Onerahi Regatta Committee, being a progress payment of the profits of the 1949 regatta.