PICTURES ON CHRISTMAS DAY
SUBJECT TO TOWN CLERK’S CENSORSHIP. The Citv Council last evening granted authority for picture theatres to be open on Christmas Day, subject to the programmes being approved by the town clerk. Councillor F. Meadowcroft said he wariSd to test the feeling.of the meeting on the recommendation. One of the other cities in. the Dominion had turned down Christmas Day pictures, and he intended to move an amendment in that direction. Councillor M. F. Luckie: We have permitted picture entertainments on December 25 for the last 40 years, subject (o the programme being approved by the town clerk. Councillor F. W. Manton considered the picture theatres should be allowed to remain open on Christmas. Day.: There would be many people in the city, and thev would have somewhere to go and would, in all probability, be better occnnied, than at a good many places in the open air. Councillor Meadowcroft: Never. On being nut to the vote, Councillor Meadowcroft’s amendment was defeated, the mover, and the seconder. Councillor G. A. Troup, being the only two to support it.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 12
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181PICTURES ON CHRISTMAS DAY Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 12
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