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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 307, 30 December 1942, Page 1

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RESIDENTS PROTEST. DANCE HALL NUISANCE. Christchurch Dec. 26. Gardens strewn with broken glass and empty liquor bottles, the use of jhscene language, drunken men and vomen, and “abom.nable excesses”--his was a picture painted by residents >1 Kilmore Street who came beiore he c.ty council to protest against the council’s decision at its last meeting o grant a dance-hall permit to the Je Luxe skating rink in Kilmore Street. The residents claimed that these conditions existed from the four-a-veek dances held now in the Caleionian Hall. What, they ask, would -he position be with a second dancenall within a few hundred yards. Notice of motion to rescind the permit was before the council, sponsored jy Cr. C. D. W. L. Sheppard. He was ;iven leave to withdraw this, and substitute another motion, calling for a ’eport on the disclosures made by the 'esidents from the council committees iftected. This motion was carried. T t was also decided, on the motion )f Cr. G. Manning, to ask the police .o investigate the behaviour of dancehall patrons, and that the attention of the Caledonian Hall authorities should be called to the matter. Cr. Sheppard presented a petition jn behalf of 110 residents opposing the licence. When the skating rink icence was granted nine years ago, said a covering letter from Mr. H. \L Williams, no opportunity had heen Jven by the council for residents to inject. Since then, many complaints had been made to the police and i'.ouncil, without effect. Fences had ieen damaged, plants and gardens trampled, empty bottles thrown and jbscene language used outside houses. There were also “disgusting nuisances.” He claimed that liquor was secreted in letter boxes and used as refreshment during the evening. Petition Presented. A petition in favour of the dancehall licence, signed by 71 residents, was presented ny Cr. J. N. Clarke. Miss Josephine Robinson, one of the deputation, said she had lived next, door to the Caledonian Hall for 10 years. Trouble arose when the lances ended, and residents were annoyed not so much by drunkeness, as by abominable practices. Men and women drank outside the houses. Tther things happened about which she could not speak. Then there were motor-cycles, racing and clattering along Kilmore Street, each rivalling the other to be fastest and loudest. She told how young boys went round with matches after dances looking tor empty hotties. “The posiiton is bad enough with the Caledonian Hall.’ 'said Mr. Newman Hall. “With another dance hall, the position would be twice as bad. ’ He described gardens littered with empty bottles and broken glass. He said beer was hidden in hedges, and flowers and shrubs trampled. Cr. Sheppard, moving his motion, urged stricter control oi dance halls, saymg that the Caledonian Hall was not alone in the complaints. Cr. J. S. Barnett seconded the motion. Bein’sides of the case should be heard, said Cr. H. E. Denton. Cr. M. E. Lyons declared that some responsibility for the conduct of their patron.; should rest on the dance-hall authorities.

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