SMOKING IN HALLS
NOT A SOCIAL OFFENCE The Devonport Borough Council debated a communication from the tire brigade superintendent, Captain H. E. Follas. last evening, concerning the futility of firemen on duty in licensed halls to forbid smoking when persons in charge at these halls officially advised those present to smoke. It was held that social conditions had changed since the by-law was framed, and that smoking was not now a social offence. It was told that at one meeting the Mayor, as chairman, had, in reply to numerous requests, granted the audience permission to smoke, although the fireman on duty had forbidden it. One councillor remarked that the way some of the women smoked at one gathering he attended in the parish hall was disgusting; he had gone outside to smoke. The fire chief was authorised to insist on the equipping of halls with chemical fire-ex-tinguishers, in case of fire canned by careless smokers, and to have firemen on duty as long as the hall was in use, extra pay to be made to the firemen after 11 p.m.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 814, 7 November 1929, Page 7
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180SMOKING IN HALLS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 814, 7 November 1929, Page 7
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