CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 27 February 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR, < Sir,—Can-pu inform me if the old school room is licensed for holding public meetings 1 My object for asking the question is to point out the danger attending holding such meetings as the one on Sunday evening last when one of the side rooms! of the school was crowded to hear a. half-dozen madbrained individuals who imagine they have a mission to save souls (from what they don't tell us) by singing silly songs very badly and much out of tuue. Now, Sir, I would be the last to interfere with those estimable individuals if they conducted their nonsense in the open air, or in a proper building where there -were plenty of means of exit in case of fire, or in consequence of a rush caused by a false alarm. It is difficult to conceive the extent of the injury that might have been done on Sunday, night if the happy thought had struck one of our social pests, the larrikins, to have raised a false alarm of fire,' the result, would have been Something terrible, women injured, children crushed to death,- breadwinners of families disabled for months, and all for what? To gratify the vanity of, a few ianatics, whose anxiety to save souls isexceeded by their anxiety .to save their pockets in not paying for a proper place to cany on their tom-foolery in,- and I sincerely hope that our inspector. of public buildings will put his veto on any meetings being held in: that building, or hold the promoters personally responsible for any accidents that may occur, Yours, &c, Snip,