“WOULD SWEEP EVERY CABARET OFF EARTH”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 410, 19 July 1928, Page 12

“WOULD SWEEP EVERY CABARET OFF EARTH”

COUNCILLOR’S AMBITION MILFORD SCHEME OPPOSED “If I were commissioned to reform humanity, I would first sweep every cabaret off the face of the earth.” Mr. J. Guiniven confessed to this ambition in moving at a meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council last evening that a previous resolution granting a licence for bathing sheds and a cabaret at Milford Beach, on certain conditions, should be rescinded. He suggested that the council should refuse all future applications for the establishment of cabarets in the borough. | The protests of Protestant clergy- ; men were mentioned. “These gentle- j men and their following comprise about 80 per cent, of the population,” said Mr. Guiniven. “Their views should carry a great deal of weight. There are a number of organisations in the borough, which are a credit to the community, and they are all emphatic in their contention that a cabaret is a source of serious temptation to the young people. You will have cartloads of bad characters coming into the district. It is not fair that we few should force temptation into the midst of our young men and women. “It is as impossible to control a cabaret by regulation as to control drinking. The only way for both is complete prohibition.” The motion was supported by Cr. J. Davis, who stated that lie had received information from a very reliable source that the cabaret would be used largely for “sly-grog selling.” The remainder of the council voting against the motion, it was lost.