ADMISSION CHARGES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

ADMISSION CHARGES

SYDNEY SUBURBAN THEATRES INCREASES ANNOY MR. LANG The decision of certain suburban : picture theatre proprietors to raise ! admission charges has considerably annoyed the Premier, Mr. Lang, says THE SUN’S Sydney correspondent. The reason given for this action is the tax that the proprietors will have to pay under the Family Endowment Act. Mr. Lang- said that it was the lower admission charges that had been raised—the seats generaly occupied by the working classes and their families. ‘‘A more miserable excuse,” he said, “could not be found. It is in keeping with the actions of some section of the community that always aim to decry the legislation of a Labour Government, and always try to make more profits for themselves by squeezing the pockets of the workers and then brazenly blame the Government for making them do so. “In the case of suburban picture shows the wages paid would not, except in rare instances, exceed £IOO a month and on this amount the proprietors would have to pay £3. Yet, to obtain this £3, they have the audacity to increase their prices of admission by 100 per cent. The proprietors will thus benefit to the tune of probably £IOO or more a month, and a number of the children of the workers will be barred from having their little amusement, because the extra charge will have to come out of i the parents’ pockets, which all will not be able to afford. “It is a poor excuse of the proprietors, but the anti-Labourites, finding themselves at a loss for something to decry in our legislation, are determined to make the workers suffer, in the hope that they will turn against Labour at the forthcoming elections.”