YOUNG GIRLS AND PUBLIC DANCING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4455, 22 May 1930, Page 3

YOUNG GIRLS AND PUBLIC DANCING.

LACK OR HOME TRAINING. .11'DOE’S COMMENT ON TRAGIC CASE. Auckland, May 20. “I desire to say that it is a grave ns well as n sad circumstance that a girt of 15 should be allowed by her parents or guardians to go unescorted to a public dunce,” said Mr. Justice Smith, when sentencing ;i young man to seven years’ hard labour for an offence against, a young girl at Hamilton. “Tin’s case illustrates the peril of such conduct in a tragic way. It shows the need of adequate home training and supervision. If that had been available for this girl it is a reasonable inference that she would never have been in the company of a person previously unknown to her beside a vacant piece of land at. midnight.

“This ease also raises in a tragic manner the question whether the proprietor of every dance hall and (lie organisers of every public dance should not voluntarily see that obvious juveniles are turned away from public donees unless escorted. Much public anxiet y would be allayed if this were done and also if the proprietor of every dance hull and the organisers of every public dance would take voluntary but rigorous steps to eject any person under the influence of liquor.”