EARLY DOORS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2149, 15 May 1914, Page 7

EARLY DOORS

NEW RULE TO BE ENFORCED. Some discussion in regard to the "early doors" at places of public amusement took place at the meeting of the.City Council last evening.. Tho By-Laws Committee, recommended:— "That tho City Solicitor bo instructed to draft a by-law to contain provision to compel proprietors of places of public amusement to open all the ordinary entrance doors of theatres, etc., at least half an hour before tho performance commences." Councillor Wright said that ho was uitder tho improssion that it was now customary to open tho doors of theatres half an hour before tho commencement of the performance. This was denied by Councillors Luckie and Barber,' who said 1 that tho practice was to keep people who did not choose to pay sixpence or a shilling for the privilege of entering by an early door standing in tho street until about a quarter of an hour before tho performance commenced. Tho proposed alteration was intended to restrict thi3 practice within reasonable limits. ■ Councillor R. Fletcher moved as an amendment that the rule as to opening tho "doors half an hour early should apply to public halls on the occasion of lectures or speeches being delivered, as well as to places of public amusement. The amendment was negatived by nine votes to two,- and tho original motion was carried.