RESERVED SEATS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1504, 29 July 1912, Page 4

RESERVED SEATS.

AT SUNDAY CONCERTS. The position with regard to the reseTration of subscribers' soats at tho Town Hall on tho occasion of tho Wellington Professional Orchestra's Sunday concert* —referred to in The Dominion of Saturday's dais—was stated for the corporation by the town clerk (Mr. J. R. Palmer) to a representative of Tun Dominion, yesterday. "The Professional Orchestra," ho said, "is allowed tho use of. the Town Hall at a greatly reduced rate for its Sunday concerts, and a condition of tho letting is that the concerts must bo free. Now, a concert is either freo or it is not free, and if certain seats at these concerts are reserved exclusively far persons wlio subscribe to the funds of the orchestra, thereby shutting out tho general public, then it cannot claim to be a free concert. If wo allowed this privilege to continue, wo would • require to extend it to the Opera House and other, halls were Sunday concerts or lectures, etc., might bs held, and this would violate the principle upon which Sunday entertainments are pcriaitted here." The Wellington Professional Orchestra, committee decided not to hold any seats in reserve for its contributors at la:-t evening's concert. A deputation will, howover, bring the matter under the notice of the Fmanco Committee at its next meeting.