INDECENT DANCES.
Campaign of Reform in City Of La Rochelle. SUPERVISION BY POLICE. (Received 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, January. 5. In the city of La Rochelle drastic measures to combat "disastrous Immoral consequences of modern indecent dances" have'been taken by th'e Prefect of the Department of La vendee. All dances open to the public are now under police supervision and nobody under 18 years of age is permitted to' attend a public ball. • The rules prohibit "noise 3, profanity | and invective in dance, halls." Each Mayor is empowered to. set hours I wliei ein dancing is legal. Special authorisation is necessary for masked balls. The church is co-operating,in the campaign.
AGA KHAN.
SEVERE ILLNESS IN PARIS. 'British Official Wireless.) (Received - p.m.) RUGBI", January o. It is understood that tlu Aga Khan, leader of the British India delegation to the Round Tabic Conference in London, who has been ill in Paris where he just managed to ward off an attack of pneumonia, will be sufficiently recovered to be present in London at to-day's meeting of the delegates.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 4, 6 January 1931, Page 7
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