CINEMAS IN BRITAIN.
A TOTAL OF 4805. 957,000,000 PAID ADMISSIONS. - No fewer than 957,000,000 people paid to enter one or other of the £035 cinemas in Great Britain last year. The weekly average was 18,500,000. . It cost them “0,950,000, of which nearly £7,000,000 went to the Government as Entertainment Tax. January was the best month, October the sec—ond best. There are more cinemas in Lanca—snire than in any other county in Eng—land—699. Yorkshire and district has 534 and London postal area 1.01.1 South \Vaies outnuuibers North Walesl by 259 to 62. The average number of seats in each cinema is 900, but in the 302 built since 1932 the average is 1,160 seats. in London there is one seat. for every 14 of the total population, in Lanca—‘shire 1 to 9. in the Eastern counties 1 to 19 and in South \\‘aies i to 10. __
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19899, 30 May 1936, Page 19 (Supplement)
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