TOWN HALL CHARGES.
■WELLINGTON RATES EXCESSIVE.. -_. There has of late been somo comment • on the heavy rates charged for the Wellington' Town Hall, which are said to be the heaviest in the whole of Australasia. Mr. John Tait, of J. and N. Tait, who is, of course, an interested party, states that the charges in Wellington are certainly too heavy, and he had been given to understand that, apart from patriotic entertainments and organ recitals, the tattings had been few and far between during the past year. Wellington's charges at present were: £18 ordinary, and £21 for a Saturday night, in a oity of, say, 80,000 people. In Melbourne, whore there were nearer 800,000 people, the rates for the Town Hall (which seated 2300) were: £12 ordinary, and £18 on a..Saturday; and the auditorium (which seated 2500) could he rented for £12 ordinary, and £20 on a Saturday. The rates for the Sydney Town Hall (which seated about 3100 people) used to bo, he thought, £18 and £22, but there again a reduction had been made which he understood brought the rates actually lower than in Wellington. The Wellington Town Hall, too, was an expensive one to work, owing to the number of doors. The auditorium in Melbourne could bo worked with half the staff needed in tho Wellington Town Haß.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2901, 13 October 1916, Page 6
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221TOWN HALL CHARGES. Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2901, 13 October 1916, Page 6
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