ROTORUA TOWN HALL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18764, 22 July 1935, Page 11

ROTORUA TOWN HALL

THEATRE PERMIT SOUGHT APPLICATION BY MAYOR A loiter from a Rotorua theatre company asking whether or not the. Rotorua Borough Council bad made an application to the Department of Internal Affairs for a theatre building permit was received at a recent meeting of tlie conn The Mayor, Mr T. Jackson, said the council lin'd not, but that he had made a tentative application. He said lie recently discovered, just, prior to- his departure from Wellington on a holiday trip abroad, that if the council desired to use the new Town flail, concerning which he later intended submitting proposals, for the. purpose of showing films, if must put in an aplicatiou l'or a permit at once. As he considered that the council’s best means of recompensing itself for the cost of the building was to use it for a picture theatre when if was not otherwise required, he- decided to lodge it tentative application. He did so just before his ship sailed and lie had no time to obtain the authority of the council. However, it, had been clearly understood that the application was tentative until the opinion of the. council bad been obtained. Mr E. T. Johnson pointed out that the Mayor's proposal for the erection of a town hall and municipal buildings bad been rejected by the previous council. and that the matter could not he reopened until six months had elapsed since that decision. Ort the motion of Mr Johnson, the council decided to take no fiction in the matter until six months had elapsed. The Mayor closed the discussion by remarking that be would make a personal application for a permit.