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Southland Times, Issue 19458, 23 January 1925, Page 5

A Wanganui resident who visited a seaside resort near Wellington, shortly before the issue of the Health Department’s order placing restrictions on the congregation of children in public places, states that in spite of the warnings issued to parents against allowing their children to attend theatres, a small picture show on the beach wps packed to the doors every evening, with its audience squatting on the floor owing to the inadequate number of seats available. The seaside, he stated, had changed considerably since a few years ago, when beach campers were prepared to retire when darkness fe|l. But now t|ie day’s activities were concluded with a fashionable dance or a visit to the pictures, which were screeped in a temporary building near the beach-