MANY PICTURE THEATRES
NEARLY 500 IN DOMINION SEATS FOR OVER 223,000 There is accommodation in the picture theatres of the Dominion for over one-seventh of the population of New Zealand.
An interesting appendix to the report of the Parliamentary Committee on the motion picture industry shows that there are 408 theatres in New Zealand, the total including 144 in small townships visited by circuit exhibitors. The total seating capacity is estimated at 223,845 persons. At December 31 last the population of New Zealand proper, including Maoris, was estimated at 1,545,925. A simple calculation shows that tho theatres are capable of seating 14.5 per cent of tho total population,, an impressive indication of the place of the industry in tho national life. By far the greatest number of theatres is in Auckland. The figures for tho four principal metropolitan areas aro as follows: —Auckland, 44; Wellington, 30; Christchurch, 1G; Dunedin, 10.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 10
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