SKATING AND CONCERTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 11

SKATING AND CONCERTS

EPIDEMIC AND ENDEMIC.

: IF MAORIS ARE CONCERNED. NEIGHBOUR CLAIMS DAMAGES. [BT TELEGBATH. —OWN COBJtESPOXDENT.] HAMILTON. Friday. Alleging that the Maori concert?, dances, and skating held in an old building known as the Peerless Hall, in Pukuatea Street, Rotorua. were causing them great annoyance and injuring their business of letting apartments and depreciating the value of the premises leased by them, a Rotorua tailor named James . Charles Clark, and his wife, Agnes Siddons Clark, boarding house keeper, sought an injunction in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, to-dav against the owners of the hall, Thomas Henley Sloane and his wife, Ellen May Sloane." restricting the latter from using the building for the purposes mentioned or in any way likely to cause the plaintiffs annoyance. The plaintiffs also claimed £505 damages for the annoyance caused and for injury to the plaintiffs' health, property, and business. The defendants denied that the noise caused by the dancing and skating was of an unusual and annoying nature. Some amusement was caused during the I hearing when counsel for the defendant | said everyone knew the noise caused by skating, and remarked that skating was : carried on only occasionally. The craze i came and went in cycles. . ' Mr. Justice Stringer interposed humorously that it appeared that roller skating was epidemic, while Maori concerts were endemic.

The case has not concluded.