BOOKING OFFICE DELAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19469, 27 October 1926, Page 10

BOOKING OFFICE DELAYS.

Sir,—l waited ha!f-an-hour at the booking office in Queen Street ycstsrday while one assistant tried to cope with the custom of twenty or thirty people. If I had not been pressed for business at the time I might have enjoyed the experience as a welcome relief from the cares of office, but a chair was not placed at my disposal and I found the standing wearisome. Because I could not afford to wait longer I had to abandon my intention of seeing Irving's Imperial Midgets at the Opera House, and as it was equally impossible to wait ii» the other queue for the Muriel Starr show, I was reluctantly obliged to throw a sop to my folk at home by booking seats at a picture theatre by phone. I wonder in whose interests the booking office management withdraws at noon all but one. attendant to deal with the heavy lunch-hour business —this at a time when booking demands are more than usually severe on account of three big shows being in season—Muriel Starr, the Midgets and the Competitions. My complaint, perhaps, is only a single instance, but it provoked a good deal of hot temper round the broking counter to-day and is, I gather, a pretty general grievance. Impatient.