CIGARETTE GIRLS
SHOCK A CITY COUNCILLOR.
Auckland, Alay 30. Air Brinsden, a member of the City Council, at last night's meeting, said he was shocked at the hall given to the Special Service Squadron in the Town Hall to see bits of girls hi the gallery, with" their feet on the seats smoking . cigarettes. They had young men with them. He was a member of the Boxing Association and anything hut a wowser. Women sometimes attended boxing matches hut lie had never seen any behave. like some of those in the ball. He saw a girl extinguish a. cigarette by stubbing it on a newly painted wall and drawing it down the wall, leaving a train of black ash and stain. The caretker had to obtain the help of a lireman to stop the girls smoking in the gallery. He proposed that the prohibition against smoking in the Town Hail as enforced at boxing carnivals be applied generally. The matter was referred to ,a committee for action.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2740, 31 May 1924, Page 2
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167CIGARETTE GIRLS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2740, 31 May 1924, Page 2
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