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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 499, 23 January 1920, Page 3

The New York correspondent of the Express says: Kansas City is the first American municipality to take official action against the present vogue of intimate dancing, according to an announcement made by Mr. N. V. Reichnecker, chief welfare officer. All public dancing places in Kansas City must enforce the following rules:—First, no seats must be placed together; second, thp man and woman must stand at least six inches apart; third, the man must not place his hand on the woman's back lower than the shoulder blade; fourth, no jigging or vulgar swaying of the shoulders; fifth no " slow drags" of vulgar charac ter; sixth, absolutely no " shimmy" dancing.

Thus the Cambridge paper: Every little town in this Dominion has its coterie of amateur aristocrats. Believing themselves to be cast in a superior mould to the rank and file of their fellow citizens they stand aloof from them on every possible occasion. They take themselves seriously and are pained and surprised to find that others do not do go also. At heart they are really not bad sorts, but on the surface they are an infliction and a nuisance. I'lfe is to ° short for cli( i ue3 ' and the rank and file despise the superior person who plays at being B gentleman without knowing the meaning of the word. A genleman is he who pays his debts, not him ho talks affectedly and snobbishly. And after all the Colonel's lady and O'Grady are sisters under their Skin, SO Kipling says. Let us cut out cliquelsm in Cambridge.

Before the end of the year the Post and Telegraph Department will have overtaken the demand for telephone connections . Applications accumulated during the later, part of the war, owing to the shortage of equipment, and some of the people are now being provided with the telephones who have been waiting a year or more. The growth of the telephone service in New Zealand has been remarkable, in spite of the temporary check inflicted by the war. Since 1910 the number of direct connections to the telephone exchanges has increased from 25,212 to 57,572, the number of miles of telephone wire in use had increased from 35,233 to 165,902, and the receipts have grown from £144,298 to £273,199.