CORRESPONDENCE. TOWN HALL MANAGEMENT

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 18 October 1910, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

TOWN HALL MANAGEMENT

' (To the "Editor".) Sir, —Reading "South OamanvV' letter in the IMail of the 17tb, I do .not think he should ho surprised at anything the Borough Council or the Works Committee do. or'do not do What con he ov»ect fiom siidi a'young, dashiag, and energetic bndv of men? Surely lie is oxpcctinc": ton inur-h. Wait until they woke np; it's j, p'ty to spoil their beauty r L>cp. I think I hear i them vov. snigiuu "Please i£o away and lot mo sloop," v.hilc tilt' "Uavir pJays tho ai"o:np<2.nimcnt. ] t'lorld like to di aw j our attrition to the way m which the 'Conned J>.i,e treated Mr ■ jll'Donakl. of tiie Opeidcincscopc Pictures. He ha <5 been a tenant of the Opera Tlouse for over two .years, has been enormous rent, more than she Council of. any town of this eke in New- Zealand ever thinks of asking, and then the City Fathers .let the place over his head. Now, I ask vou, do you think it "fair, after a man has built - lip i. business, and very nearly bo'iglvfc the Opsra House for the people b\' paying such an" enormous rent," for the Cniinril.to set in such a scurvy way? When J. C Wiiliamsoii's company wore here last the;, took about > £250 out oi the town in ona night; the Council charged them tlie same rent as Mr M'Donald Imp been paying, and spent about five times as much hi .building a. dressing loom for them underneath tlie.-stage, which, perhaps, miy never be required again. . ; When Mr M'Donald asks»for'p- decent rliesht to. boiput-in rfront .fifitb.O/building, ,'tliat an- ©bjectionabls-. pjd -..unsafe, sicca- of' wpod'be-ieroo'Ced'.lalicl a propenand! safe' operatingj;box ■ birdt,-_ jthe their ,bsickVj , '&p.vttiidi'trci;G , 'him L down.<■ The-picture* s£ow JtJVdono moie-than' anv xjtber'.jbhafo" of' cutertammcnt'"to mssiuct and-amuse the young people, and. itrlias" proved itself >a sure method of. attracting, tlie -incipient larrikin from' the-- street -anoV'giving him wholesome, enjoyment, Vand this is the way the guafdian&.oC- the town's welfare treat tho pioneer of picture enterprise.— I "'amy. etc., FAIR PLAY.