SAILORS BARRED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22579, 18 November 1936, Page 12

SAILORS BARRED

INCIDENT AT /CABAKET CITY COUNCIL /ATTITUDE INVESTIGATION j)F LICENCE [by tki.f.graph—pkfAs association] WELLINGTON, Tuesday The turning awav from a cabaret of sailors from It.M.S. /Achilles recently was discussed fit, a meeting of the Wellington City Ci uncil tfo-dfl.v. Mr. P. M. iutler/ who had been absent from W Hingfton for some weeks, claimed that he incident had given Wellington a ad njame in other parts of. New Zeal aid. |He had found that people in othe cities "put us down as a lot of snobs " I The council shq/uld dissociate itself from the actio i o t the cabaret management, Mr. Bt tier j added. He said he felt strongly ? you ' the incident, having been a naval nan \ The Mayor, Mr. Jl 1 . C. A. Hislop, said that, like probabh wnost of the councillors, he frit (■ jtrenielv indignant about the treitment meted out to the sailors. To sin v that 1 , the city knew how to treat sailo s, it been arranged for two bus-l< ids of if hem to be taken for a drive int > the r jmntry. He did not think that tb< city < 4uld be blamed for what had happened, ''nd considered that the position night br ; , altered when the sailors returned to Wellington. Mr. Butler aiscd tijie question of the jurisdiction oi the council over the licence of the r aha ret . He expressed the view that the city solicitor should go into the point; to see\ if the council could cancel the licence?. The Mayor said he ha?d intended asking the city solicitor to investigate that aspect, and that could l|>c done.