"HUMANISED PIGS."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 22 November 1927, Page 8

"HUMANISED PIGS."

SOME PEOPLE AT DANCES

MAYOR ADVISES A <CLEAN-UP>

MOST DANCERS RESPECTABLE.

iHy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

CHRISTCHURCH, this day

There were some candid expressions of opinion when a deputation from the Canterbury Society of Arts waited 011 the City Council last evening to discuss the refusal of the council to renew the license of the Art Gallery as a dance hall.

Speakers for the society declared that members had visited the Gallery and could see none of the acts complained of. A good deal of trouble was caused by the parking of cars outside. The withdrawal of the license meant a reduction of 75 per cent in the society's revenue.

In the course of his reply the Mayor (Rev. J. K. Archer) said most people who went to dances were reputable people, and lie could not understand why they did not band together and "clean dancing up." Though the majority of people who went to dances w r ere thoroughly respectable, there were some people, both men and women, who could not go to dances without making pigs of themselves. Why should these "humaniseji pigs" be allowed to spoil things for the rest of the community? Decent people and others concerned should unite and clean this thing up; they could do it.

So far as the was concerned, said Mr. Archer, they were prepared to meet the society. They did not want to deprive the society of its license, but they had a duty to the public. On the evidence they possessed they were satisfied that the license should not be renewed.

It was reported that complaints had also been received regarding the conduct of persons attending dances at Jellicoe Hall and Caledonian Hall.