DRUGGED SWEETS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4948, 8 March 1926, Page 3

DRUGGED SWEETS.

CONSUMED IN DANCE HALLS.

GIRLS LED ASTRAY.

At the Methodist conference at Dunedin on Friday Mr A. J. Peri’ott ,(New Plymouth) moved that .the conference should draw the attention of the Government to the growing practice of excessive drinking by young men and women at dances, and that the use of sweets containing drugs, prevalent .at such gatherings, was leading many young women into serious trouble. He urged the conference to call on the Government to take necessary ♦steps to make impossible the continuance of such dangerous and evil practices.

Mr Perrott asid he knew of young women from respectable homes who frequented dance halls and other places; of amusement, and that there had been drugs administered to them in. the form of sweets, and, as a result, .they had fa,Hen into serious trouble. He w.as thinking of the case of a young girl in a northern tea room who had fallen in this way. She was a girl, with absolutely no evil tendencies or desires, and yet shq had fallen through no fault ,of her own. He considered that some drastic action should be .taken by the Government to, put this sort of thing dowto.