NO DANCING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 6

NO DANCING.

AT IRISH CONCERT

SUNDAY PROGRAMME.

BOBOVOH COUWCIJL'e STAND. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) ROTOR UA, this day. Although it wae by "the promoters of the concert that several meinl>ers of the priesthood, and possibly the Bishop, would be present, and that nothing likely to offend public taate would occur, the Hofeorua Borough Council last night d*"c?de(l to Insist that humorous and national dancing items included in the programme for the suggested Irieh national concert on the night of Sunday, .March 19, l>e deleted. The finance committee, which had considered Ui«- programme, recommended that it be approved subject to the deletion of certain item*. The promoters of the concert, in a further letter, said they were prepared to delete the lnimorous itom*. but tliiit national dancing items l»e permitted. Several prii'.-t* would be pix-soiil. and also fun-inly tin.; Bishop, and care would lie taken that no section of the programme was likely to prove unsuitable for Sunday LMilertiiiiiliicnt. The Mayor. Mr. T. .lackson, that after hirit yearV concert objection* were raised to iiiunorous it<-ms and dancing at. what had been stated to be purely a sacred concert. When the council dWiiMited the matter the opinion was expressed by .Mr. W. K. Pernio thiit the council, if it refused jiermiisMoii in tlii.s ca.-c. should, if it was logical, refuse permission for Maori concerts to be held on Sunday*, as they inL'liuled liakas mul ]»>i dances. Mr. K» 'J'. Jolmeoji, in reply, >aid that aiaori concerts were for the benefit of touristfs, who had no other op[iortunity of eeeiug a full Maori performance. There wan no reason why an Irish concert rihoiild not be held on a week night.' -Mr. l>. Kinninmont said he thoiight that th<- council was imjio«ing too nianv re«trictions. and that there was no reason why tlie national dancing should not be. permitted in the programme. By four votes to two. the council decided not to permit dancing to be included in the programme. Loud-speaker Question. The council also discussed the question of the. loud-speaker system employed during the tliristmaw and Xew Year carnival. The works committee, which had investigated complaints regarding the loud-.*j>eaker. reported that it had been found that many of the persons at the Borough Motor Camp, where the speaker wa<s employed, objected to the introduction of advertising matter, and it was accordingly recommended that the speaker be restricted to the announcement of detaile of the carnival programme, and a litUe music. The recommendation was referred to the advancement committee for ite consideration.