OBJECTION TO DANCE HALL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 September 1932, Page 6

OBJECTION TO DANCE HALL.

A OHEISTCHUECH CASE. Allegations of unseemly conduct on the part of men patrons of the Dorothy Dance Hall, Cashel Street, were made by witnesses in the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The City Council was the defendant in a claim for £IOO damages made by Mitchael Thomas Hall, the proprietor of the dance' hall, for alleged wrongful cancellation of his license. Previously witnesses had given evidence in favour of the claim, denying the allegations and saying that there was no cause for complaint. To-day one witness, Jane McCollum, a married woman, said that on the night on which she and her husiband observed the conduct at the dance hall that gave rise to the complaint she saw a group of young men in a very drunken condition standing beside a ear outside the dance hall. Witness was invited to have a drink, and on refusing was abused in insulting language. On another night witness passed down the centre of the road in front of the dance hall. Some young men who were standing on the footpath were using offensive language. They threw a bottle over the fence and then went into the hall. Another witness, matron of a girls’ hostel nearby, said that it was the noise of motor cyclfis that she objected to. Otherwise there was nothing .to complain about. * • Evidence was given that men were frequently seen drinking outside the ball, that men were seen drunk, and that men had used offensive to passers-by. Residents in the neighbourhood stated they had been disturbed by the noise of motor cars starting after the dances. Decision was reserved.