PICTURES ON SUNDAY
CHARGE DISMISSED ON ACT OF 1780 Press Association. GREYMOUTH, Monday. The manager of the Greymouth Pictures Company, Arthur Beban. was charged in the Police Court to-day with conducting pictures on Sunday. Several officials of the Greymouth Bath Committee were charged with assisting him. Beban leased the hall to the Bath Committee for Sunday evening at £3. the committee making its own arrangements about the staff. Counsel for the defence quoted the English Sunday Observance Act, 1780, to the effect that an owner or lessee who lets his hall to others could not be held iable. The magistrateu pheld this contention, and dismissed all the charges. It was stated in evidence that Sunday pictures in the past three years had netted the Bath Committee er ; £7OO.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 16
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128PICTURES ON SUNDAY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 16
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