“HUMANISED PIGS"

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1927, Page 15

“HUMANISED PIGS"

SOME PEOPLE AT DANCES. Mayor advises a "clean up.-’ Christchurch, Nov. 25. There were some eandid expressions of opinion when a deputation from the Canterbury Society of Arts waited on the City Council last evening to discuss the refusal of the council to renew the license of the Art Gallery as a dance hall. Speakers for the society declared that members had visited the Gallery and eould see none of the acts complained of. A good deal of trouble was caused by the parking of cars outside. The withdrawal of the license meant a reduction of 75 per cent, .n the society’s revenue. In the course of his reply the Mayor (Rev. J. K. Archer) said most people who went to dances were reputable people, and he could not understand why they did not band together and "clean dancing up.” Though the majority of people who went to dances were thoroughly respectable, there were some people, both men and women, who eould not go to dances without making pigs of themselves. Why should these "humanised pigs” be allowed to spoil things for the rest of the community? Decent people and others concerned should unite and clean this thing up; I they could do it. So far as the council was concerned, ( said Mr. Aicher, they were prepared f to meet the society. They did not want I to deprive the society of its license, but they had a duty to the public. On the; evidence they possessed they were satis-1 find that the license should not be re •' newed. It was reported that complaints had! also been received regarding the conduct! of persons attending danees at .Teliieoe I Hall and Caledonian Hall.