SCREENING PICTURES ON SUNDAY
CITY COUNCIL TO REFUSE APPLICATIONS
An assurance was given by the City Council last night that it would refuse any application made by the motion picture exhibitors for the screening of films on Sundays. The Southland branch of the New Zealand Theatrical Workers’ Union wrote that it was advised that it was the intention of the New Zealand motion picture exhibitors to approach the Minister of Internal Affairs and the National Patriotic Board in Wellington aboun screening pictures on Sundays for the duration of the war, the proceeds to go to the Patriotic Fund. The union would at all times do everything in its power to assist the war cause, but desired to point out that theatre workers at present worked six days and nights a week, and Sunday Was therefore their only day for rest or recreation, and the screening of pictures on Sunday would mean a seven-day week for them. The union wished to have the assurance of the council that in the event of an, application being made on these lines, the council would refuse it
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Southland Times, Issue 24228, 11 September 1940, Page 4
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183SCREENING PICTURES ON SUNDAY Southland Times, Issue 24228, 11 September 1940, Page 4
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