SUNDAY CINEMA SHOWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11247, 27 June 1922, Page 2

SUNDAY CINEMA SHOWS

MEMBER OF AUDIENCE FINED. PKS, PRESS ASSOCIATION. GREYMOUTH, June 26. Mr Meldrum, S.M., to-day gave reserved judgment in the charges brought the police against Henry Hawkins (pianist), Henry Jone* (operator), and William Steele (a member of the audience) for aiding and abetting Arthur Bevan, manager of the Peerless Pictures, for keeping open, the Town Hall for the purpose of showing Sunday pictures. Be van bad been convicted and fined, the maximum Penalty, jjl, on several occasions, for snowing Sunday pictures. In the course of his judgment, Mr Meldrum said that Sevan had made light of the payment of fines for a breach of the Act. It wa« evident this was due to the inducement offered by the support of the public. In his opinion, people who offered inducement to Bevan to keep open his show aided and abetted Bevan, and were therefore liable. Steele would be convicted and ordered to pay costs. Jones and Hawkins both knew Reran was committing an offence, and they were liable for aiding and abetting him. They, too, would be convicted, but the (penalty/ would be a nominal one. The case was merely a test, and they were Ordered to' pay costs.