SUNDAY SHOWS
AN AUCKLAND DECISION
(By Telegraph—Per Press A ssociation) AUCKLAND, July 22. Judgment was given to-day in the City Council’s favour, in a test case to determine whether certain Sunday gatherings in.theatres are legal. A. D. Wylie, secretary of the Auckland Philosophical Society was fined £6,. with costs, for breach of Section '309, Municipal Corporations Act, which provides that no concert or entertainment may be held on Sunday, Good Friday and Christmas Day, except with the permission of the Council; -Magistrate McKean said a mere, statement by the promoter, that the main item, of interest in the three hours’ entertainment was a lecture occupying thirty minutes, was not itself sufficient to lix the real nature ol the proceedings. The fact that the 'instruction given did not prevent what would otherwise he an amusement from coming ’within the definition of entertainment. The Magistrate concluded by saying that he was not concerned with the question of permitting Sunday night entertainments. iHe was satisfied there had been a breach of the law, and that it was. not committed in ignorance. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1931, Page 3
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178SUNDAY SHOWS Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1931, Page 3
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