DEMONSTRATION OF ROCK ’N’ ROLL
Offer By Welfare Minister (New Zealand Press Association) NELSON, May 17. The Minister for the Welfare of Women and Children (Miss Howard) sees nothing wrong with rock ’n’ roll. It was not as strenuous as some of the oldtime dances like the mazurka, the Minister said at an informal reception given in Nelson by the Mayor (Mr S. I. Russell). To show just how easy rock ’n’ roll was. Miss Howard offered to give a demonstration in the Mayor’s room and invited Councillor E. R. Neale to partner her. The Mayor and councillors accepted her statement and did not call for a demonstration. Miss Howard said that the only time rock ’n’ roll became dangerous was when couples attempted acrobatic acts similar to those done on the stage. The noise and movement associated with rock ’n’ roll were apparently what youth in the atomic age wanted.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28897, 18 May 1959, Page 5
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