STANDING IN THEATRES.
WELLINGTON COURT CASE. BY-LAW NOT UNREASONABLE. [by telegraph.—press association - .] WELLINGTON', Tuesday. Four charges of permitting overcrowding, contrary to the city by-laws, were preferred against the proprietor of His Majesty's Theatre, W. E. Fuller, at the Wellington Magistrate's Court to-day. For the defence it was argued that the by-law making it an offence for the licensee of any theatre to permit patrons to stand in the passage-ways was unreasonable. The practice of permitting a certain number of patrons to stand during a performance was allowed in theatres throughout the world. The magistrate held that the defendant had failed to pr ,v ? the by-law unreasonable, and fined him £3 and costs on the first charge, and entered a conviction and ordered the payment of costs on tho other three charges. The abovo case is evidently a sequel to recent negotiations in Wellington between entertainment managers and the City Council, as the result of which the council declined to alter its decision to enforce the by-law prohibiting standing in theatres.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17113, 19 March 1919, Page 6
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