BEACH ANNOYANCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22948, 28 January 1938, Page 11

BEACH ANNOYANCE

NOCTURNAL REVELLERS CAMPERS DISTURBED DARGAVILLE COAST RESORT [by TELEGRAPH OWN" correspondent] DARGAVILLE. Thursday "A large number of west coast residents are disgusted with the behaviour of visitors attracted to the locality by dances," said a resident of Chase's Gorge, on the west coast, near Dargaville, when referring to a suggestion to remove the hall. " There is no complaint against the dances themselves," he continued. " There is a certain element who spend half the night outside parading up and down the beach and generally making nuisances of themselves.

" Campers are Iseing kept awake at all hours of the night and in the early morningvjby singing and shouting, and their property is being trespassed upon and damaged. There is a widespread feeling that the hall is no longer being used for the purpose for which it was built, and many feel that it is time to decide whether it should be retained or not."

Another camper instanced the state in which the hall was found when about to be used for an early morning church service after it had been used for a party on a Saturday night. "It is a small tally if only three sacks of empty beer bottles are left lying about the precincts of the building after a dance," ho added.