A CITY OF GAIETY.
SYDNEY'S BIG JOY BILL. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SYDNEY. April 29. Of the cup of pleasure Sydney drinks deeply and apparently does not count the cost. In Sydney alone, it is estimated, over £4,000,000 is spent annually„on entertainments. This is regarded as a conservative estimate. Estimating the eleven LSatres and the 147 picture shows in the metropolitan area present an average of one show to 500 patrons each day, it is found that about. 23.000.030 people are thus entertained in a year. The average daily attendance is probably higher at these shows. '(< Approximately 30,000 men and women go to the races each week. For about 30 weeks in the year, when jazz rules, approximately three-quarters of a million young men and women patronise the dance halls of the city. This, of course is apart from all the other sports. these figures do not mean, of course, that each visitor was a different person. They- are the number of admissions to these places.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19321, 7 May 1926, Page 15
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166A CITY OF GAIETY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19321, 7 May 1926, Page 15
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