Court Hearing – Chichester Observer – Wednesday, 11 April 1917
Transcript:

THE MILITARY TO APPEAL FOR A SELSEY CINEMA PROPRIETOR, The Selsey Cinema. Some little time was spent in the hearing of an application by Selsey Cinema proprietor, etc., 34. who asked for a renewal of his exemption. In the course his examination he said he had a son only six weeks old. He was now doing the work of a motor mechanic in addition to the cinema business. He offered his services to a local tradesman to enable another man to enlist, and he had now taken his place, being the only mechanic in the business. He also mentioned that a sum over £200 had been raised for entertainments at his cinema for charity, and he had done his part in aiding recruiting. The cinema was now being used by the Volunteers for drill on two nights each week. He was working the cinema single-handed except for the help his wife could give him, and he only had a boy to assist him at the motor works. The Tribunal decided to give exemption for six weeks, final.

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