MORALITY OF DANCING.
AGITATION IN WALES. CLOSING OF DANCE HALLS' ADD'VOOAmEID. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. Received Fteb. 5, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 4. Following the action of the .Italian. Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini m banning dance halls, there is an agitaton iu Wales regarding the morality of dancing. _ ~ , The Reverend T. E. Evans, Baptist Minister at Newport, Pembrokeshire, says dancing is neither healthy nor painless. It excites, intoxicates and causes undue blood pressure. A- gijEi after waltzing for fifteen minutes in a. crowded .ballroom is in a similar condition to one drinking champagne. Mr. Llewper Thomas, magistrate at Pontypridd, advocates the closing - of dancing halls at 10.30 p.m on the ground that the reputation ot Welsh women is being thrown away for the sake of sensuous, glamour of dancing and the seductive dalliance of a. dangerous walk home afterwards. A.us.N.Z. Cable -Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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