LIQUOR AT DANCES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4860, 5 August 1925, Page 2

LIQUOR AT DANCES.

“A PERNICIOUS PRACTICE.” COMPLAINT FROM MANGAITI. Apparently the fact that Paeroa and Waihi are situated within the boundary of ,a no-license area is not the cause of the taking liquor to dances. In an editorial in Monday’s issue of the Te Aroha “News” it is stated: — “The pernicious practice of taking intoxicating liquor to dances is one that is doing more harm to dancing in this district than is generally supposed, and i steps should be taken by dance committees tp put down this abominable habit. At the meeting of the Mangaiti Social Club it was said that local people would not attend the dances owing to the amount of drinking which had been prevailing there. In most of the dance halls in the larger cities notices are hung in prominent places to the effect that any person under the influence of liquor or having liquor in his possession would be liable for expulsion from the hall. Something of this nature might prove a deterrent to that class of person who "thinks a. dance is merely a place where he is entitled to make himself a drunken nuisance and a source of annoyance to everyone concerned. Certainly the dances will be better patronised if women know that they can attend without being open to the chance of being insuited by some drunken yqiith or having to dance with a partner who reeks of beer or whisky.”