EARLY CLOSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 244, 15 October 1929, Page 10

EARLY CLOSING.

CITY DANCE HALUS.<

CHRISTCHTIRCH DECISION;

RESCINDING/MOTION LOST.

(By.;. Own Correspondent.)

CHRISTCHURCH, .this,day.

• The.;decision-of. the; City. Council that' certain-' city, dance; halls: shall -cloSe v at 11.30. 'p.m...0n.' Saturdays-/was 'confirmed. kt "last.rnight's vmeeting, when .'a .nibticra to rescind . the-decision was defeated'by eleven-votes ..... ' '" •■;'-. Mr.. Armstrong,.;. who inoyed , tie rescinding motion,' said." the", city'.'.would be made a ; laughing-stock throughout the D'ominioir if tlie ''restriction' were insisted; on/, Mt..wa6-.a thiii'g unheard Kof anywliere' the/world.",, ,-.; . ."It; is ;this sort -of U thing -that .brings the,- -council, into . contempt," l - said the Mayor, the Rev.. J. K.- Archer. "At its last'. meeting rae ..council; was ' almost unanimous:'on"tliis question, but.because the -editors of the newspapers laughed at lis. We just get Sown-and-crawl to theni:" He hoped -tlxe-council, would haye., the. grit .'to/do what: it did; two weeks.ago/ : ;