DRINKING AT DANCES
REMARKABLE ALLEGATIONS By Telegraph—Press Association WHANGAREI, October 4. Speaking of drinking at New Zealand dances, which the tenor of her remarks went to show was a Dominionwide practice, Mrs Perryman, editor of the “White Ribbon,” related to the Convention of the Northland Women’s Christian Temperance Union, instances of young girls becoming so drunk that they could not remember where they lived. A Wellington taxi driver, she said, had picked up two girls in the street during the early hours one morning. Girls who were going to dances, she said, were often expected to become intoxicated before the evening was out. She knew cases where girls had attached tickets to their frocks in order that their acquaintances should know where to take them home. Girls were expected to be incapable of giving thenown addresses.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20850, 5 October 1937, Page 9
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136DRINKING AT DANCES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20850, 5 October 1937, Page 9
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