UNLICENSED PICTURES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20045, 18 September 1939, Page 8

UNLICENSED PICTURES

BREACHES AT MATAWAI CONVICTION RECORDED A charge of failing to register a cinematograph picture entertainment of which he was the proprietor, and two further charges of admitting persons to the show with tickets denoting that the proper amusement tax had been paid were admitted bv Edwaid Kipping Wilson in the Police Court this morning when he appeared before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M.

Wilson was alleged to have committed the breaches of the regulations while conducting a talking picture show in. Matawai.

Senior-Sergeant J. F. H. Macnamara, who prosecuted, said that the information regarding the admittance was laid under the Amusement Tax Act, 1922. The accused was the proprietor of the entertainment and, after dissolving partnership with another man, had conducted Ihe pictures on his own, but had failed to obtain the necessary license.

The tickets sold were not stamped or marked to show that entertainment tax had been paid. No tax had been paid. Wilson said that the matter had arisen cut of an misunderstanding regarding admission charges. Of late, he had been charging an admission price to which the tax did not apply.

On the first charge Wilson was convicted and fined £2 and costs and on the other two was convicted and discharged.