The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, September 23, 1913. MUNICIPAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1149, 23 September 1913, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday, September 23, 1913. MUNICIPAL PICTURES.

We have been shown a clipping from an English journal of recent date containing particulars of a legal case of peculiar interest to the local corporation, which is awaiting the Chief Justice’s ruling in re Mrs Hamer’s injunction to prohibit the Council from providing moving picture entertainments. Here is the paragraph :

THE COMPETITION IN PICTURE PALACES.

At Dover there is a prospect of two picture palaces' being erected side by side. The Dover Picture Palace Company, Ltd., have already a picture palace, and the Corporation have passed plans for another to be erected adjacent to it. Thereupon the Company went to the High Court to obtain an injunction restraining the Dover Corporation and the promoters (Messrs Gurr, Moody and Wraith) from allowing the plans to be proceeded with, mainly on the ground that they contravened the Council’s own by-laws. A judge in Chambers having refused the injunction, the plaintiffs appealed, and the appeal came before three judges on Wednesday, when Mr Ralph Banks, K.C., appeared in support of the plaintiffs. He was asked whether the plaintiffs took the action they did because of the fear of competition, and replied that the plaintiffs, as ratepayers, had a right to object to an illegal action by the Corporation, but of course they were vitally interested in other respects.—Lord Justices Buckley could not see the slightest justification for an interim injunction, and dismissed the case with costs, without calling upon counsel tor the other side.