FIREMEN IN THEATRES
TE AWAMUTU DISCUSSION From Our Own Correspondent TE AWAMUTU, Tuesday. The necessity of firemen attending the Empire Picture Theatre was brought before the Te Awamutu Borough Council on Monday by the secretary of the Te Awamutu Fire Board. The board asked that it be made a I condition of the licence that firemen i be in attendance at ail entertainments- - public halls. Cr. Spinley, manager of the theatre, quoted a statement by a fire superintendent that there was no need for firemen at picture shows. He said it w-as a considered opinion that a couti--1 cil which operated in a fire board dis- ; tnct had no power to make it a condition of the issue of the licence i that firemen be in attendance. As to i firemen entering an operating box he 5 would like to see one try it—he would . be emptied out forciblv. Governl ment regulations over-rode any fire ? board s by-laws. It was simply a i matter of free pictures and payment ’ lor the attendance of the firemen, i was finally agreed that inquiry be I of the Municipal Association’s I solicitor as to whether the Borough “ | Council, in a town where a fire board t of the licence that firemen be in t j attendance.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 777, 25 September 1929, Page 6
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213FIREMEN IN THEATRES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 777, 25 September 1929, Page 6
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