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+++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Mrs ZR, int 3...
SB: WHAT ABOUT THINGS LIKE DANCES?                         1388
SB: DID YOU YOURSELVES GO TO ANY DANCES WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG? TO OTHER CHURCH 
DANCES FOR 
EXAMPLE?                       1394
ZR: No we didn't bother till we went to work and then we went to DANCES.    
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SB: OK. RIGHT. SO WHEN YOU WERE A TEENAGER OLGA, WOULD YOU GO OUT AS A TEENAGER? 
OUT, 
SAY, TO DANCES OR TO TOWN?     1414
SB: SO YOU WOULDN'T GO TO FOR EXAMPLE THE PRESBYTERIAN DANCES?
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+++ Searching document intJ B...
      *MC:  APART FROM DOING THINGS LIKE GOING ON PICNICS AND HAVING SINGING 
EVENINGS 
DID THEY EVER GO TO DANCES OR TO THE FILMS?                 105
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs JB...
      MC:      OK. WAS THAT - SO IT WASN'T ONE OF THE DANCES THAT WERE HELD 
AROUND....      185
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs RB, & Whitty, J...
MB: We had the 'Amaco' [indistinct] up at St Josephs. It was sort of a Catholic 
group of 
young ones. We were there. And there were Club DANCES.      193
SB: MONDAY NIGHT DANCES AT ST JOSEPHS.                      199
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+++ Searching document int.Caird, Myrtle...
         MC:  Well I played basketball and I  went to DANCES.  I used to love 
dancing. I  think that just about Ð helped around the house.  Of course you 
always had to do that in  those days.  Visiting relations.  I think that was 
about our lot. But of course see I  was at basketball practice about two nights 
a week and then playing on Saturdays.   Working Saturday morning.  So you didn't 
get.               598
         MEG:  DANCES WERE VERY FREQUENT THEN, WEREN'T THEY.                                
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         MEG:  SO DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE REASONABLE TO SAY THAT YOU WERE 
PROBABLY 
GOING TO THREE DANCES A WEEK?   668
         MC:  Oh yes.  Sometimes the Early Settlers.  Then there used to be the 
Macandrew Road DANCES and the St Kilda dances.  You could go out every night of 
the week 
if you wanted to but I wasn't allowed.                      670
         MEG:  WHAT DID THE MEN WEAR TO THE DANCES?         732
         MC:  Oh I loved the movies.  I'd go in the afternoons.  Saturday 
afternoon. I'm  talking about not so much when I was in my teens going to DANCES 
but before that I loved  the movies.                     742
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+++ Searching document int.Crossan, Phyllis...
      PC:  We used to go to DANCES four or five times a week.  I still would go 
a lot if  I had a husband to go dancing with.  They take you in when you're 
single, no problem  whatsoever.  But after they get married then they've got a 
sore leg or something.  But I  love it.  I used to go away off there or we'd go 
to the pictures, that sort of thing.   There were so many dances in those days.  
We had so much to pick and choose from.  On a  wet night Ð we used to wear long 
frocks in those days you see Ð you'd hitch your frock  up, you'd have your 
evening shoes wrapped up in a parcel under your arm, and off you'd  go flatstick 
to the tram. You'd get the tram into town.     255
      MC:  HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO THE DANCES?
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      PC:  I suppose I was about 16.  But I used to go to DANCES earlier than 
that with  my mother.  My father didn't dance.  He had two left feet as he used 
to say. But Mum  used to love it and there were friends of ours who used to go 
to a dance, a monthly  dance up at the ??.  Mum had taught me to dance in our 
kitchen.  We used to roll the  rugs up in those days, push the table into the 
corner and put the chair up on the top of  it.  Mum learnt me to dance in our 
kitchen.  Of course as I say I loved it so I used to  go off with them you see.  
I had the time of my life.       259
      MC:  RIGHT.  SO WHEN YOU STARTED GOING OUT TO DANCES ON YOUR OWN AT 16 WHO 
DID YOU 
GO WITH?                        265
      PC:  Well you went on your own and met up with your girlfriends in the 
DANCES.   There'd be about five of us from Dreavers.  We used to all go 
together. The girls all  sat round there in the hall and the boys stood at the 
door.  They'd eye you all over and  decide which one they'd get to ask.  A mad 
rush. But they haven't changed very much  really.  They still stand at the door 
and look around.      267
      PC:  Yes.  Well there's so few DANCES now.  Graham, that's my youngest 
son, he  said to me one time before he was married 'I envy you and the things 
that you did in  your young days.  For us there's nothing.'  They started some 
dances at the East Taieri  Presbyterian Sunday School and he was out there with 
his friend one night and these  chaps came round and for no reason at all 
punched his friend in the face and broke his  front teeth.  Now they had to 
close that dance down.  This was years ago.  All this sort  of thing.  Another 
night he went to a football do in Green Island and we know the fellow  involved, 
he was pretty rough and he had a few other ones with him.  He came up and  
punched Graham. He was just sitting talking to his friends.  You just don't know 
what's  going to happen these days.     271
      MC:  HOW WERE THE DANCES RUN?                         277
      *MC:  IT IS A BIT DIFFERENT.  SO APART FROM THE DANCES, WHAT OTHER KINDS 
OF THINGS 
DID YOU DO?                     285
      PC:  Well it would be depending on the DANCES.  If we didn't go to dances 
then  we'd go to the pictures.  Quite often I'd be dressmaking for outsiders and 
my time was  all taken up.  I didn't have any spare time.  There was always 
something to do.  If it  wasn't that it was helping in the house doing your 
little chores and so forth.              295
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+++ Searching document int.Delargey, Edward J....
SB: YEAH. IT MIGHT BE DANCES OR SPORTS TEAMS OR ANY CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES?
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SB: DID YOU EVER GO TO A LOT OF THINGS LIKE DANCES, WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG?
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SB: RIGHT. DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN ANY CATHOLIC SOCIAL ACTIVITIES WHEN YOU WERE 
A 
TEENAGER OR SOMETHING? DID THEY HAVE ROMAN CATHOLIC DANCES? YOU NEVER WENT TO 
THEM DID 
YOU?                            428
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+++ Searching document int.Mr BD...
      BD:  Mmm.  She used to play for DANCES as well, (80).
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      *MC:  DID YOU GO OUT TO DANCES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.  WERE THERE TIMES 
WHEN YOU  WERE DOWN IN DUNEDIN WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO WORK AND YOU WOULD GO OUT 
AND DO SOMETHING  SPECIAL?                        755
      BD:  We never went to DANCES and those days but I used to go to  all the 
dances in  Enfield in those days.  Four of us married because my sister would 
play for them and she  used to play a bar round.       757
      MC:  WERE DANCES SOMETHING THAT UNMARRIED PEOPLE WENT TO RATHER THAN 
MARRIED  PEOPLE?                         759
      MC:  DANCES.  WAS IT MAINLY UNMARRIED PEOPLE WHO WENT TO THEM?
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      BD:  Yeah, the DANCES used to have a sit down supper and all this sort of 
thing,  school dances, just school stories and all that sort of thing.  By the 
way, they had a  school jubilee about six months ago.                        769
      BD:  The hall was the main place where you met most people. (MC: RIGHT.) 
They used  to have a spinister's ball and a bachelor's ball and school DANCES 
and all this sort of  thing.  There was always something on.                      
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MD...
      *MC:      NOW, WHAT DID YOU DO FOR FUN WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP, DID YOU 
GO OUT TO  DANCES OR TO THE FILM OR - WHAT KIND OF THINGS DID PEOPLE DO THEN?
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      MD:      They went out to DANCES.                    2246
      MC:      MAINLY THEY WENT OUT TO DANCES?             2248
      MD:      But it really is. It 's really for [indistinct] I don 't know. 
They, they  barely touched your knees, at the DANCES you could see all the girls 
' pretty garters  above their knee.              2280
      MC:      WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO WORK AND OUT TO DANCES AND THINGS LIKE 
THAT, HOW 
WERE YOU TRAVELLING, WERE YOU WALKING OR WERE YOU USING THE TRAM?
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+++ Searching document int.Duncan, Dorothy...
     MC:  DID YOU EVER GO OUT TO ANY OF THE DANCES THAT WERE BEING HELD AROUND 
DUNEDIN?     255
     MC:  RIGHT.  HOW WERE THE DANCES SEEN BY THEM DO YOU THINK?
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     *MC:  OK.  WHEN YOU WERE WORKING, WERE YOU THE EXCEPTION IN AS MUCH AS MOST 
OF THE 
OTHER GIRLS WOULD GO TO THE DANCES?                         572
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+++ Searching document int.Miss DF. & Miss GB....
	GB:	Oh, yes, yes. Saturday night. You didn 't go out every day of the 
week, you had your  special nights for going out, and we would go to the DANCES, 
and my husband was an  athletic coach and he, he 'd run when he was younger in 
the Caversham Harriers and they  had a lot of entertainment, dances and one 
thing and another, and we were, were always  there, and enjoyed it. Went, we 
went to a lot of balls, there was a grocer 's ball then, 
and uhm, yes -                 1411
	DF:	And school DANCES and -   1417
	MC:	WHEN I HEAR HOW MANY DANCES THERE USED TO BE I 'M INCLINED TO AGREE 
WITH YOU. IT 
SOUNDS LIKE PEOPLE HAD A GREAT DEAL OF FUN.                1425
	DF:	To the Caversham School DANCES.                       1449
	GB:	Our father used to go up to the Caversham School DANCES.
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	*MC:	NOW, YOU 'VE TALKED TO ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THINGS LIKE THE DANCES 
AND THE 
SATURDAY NIGHTS AT HOME WITH FAMILY FRIENDS COMING AROUND. WHAT WERE THE OTHER 
THINGS 
THAT YOU DID WHEN, YOU KNOW, AFTER YOU LEFT SCHOOL FOR, FOR FUN. WHAT KIND OF 
THINGS DID  PEOPLE DO THEN?                1829
	MC:	AND THE DANCES, THE DANCES, THE OLD PUPILS ' DANCES IN CAVERSHAM, 
WOULD THE CHINESE  EX-PUPILS GO TO THEM AS WELL?  2525
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+++ Searching document int.Fraser, Pat...
     *MC:  DID YOU DO THINGS LIKE GO OUT TO DANCES MUCH?    501
     MC:  NOW WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DANCES.  HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU STARTED 
GOING OUT  TO THINGS LIKE DANCES?          509
     MC:  EIGHTEEN.  NOW WHAT WAS IT THAT MADE THE DANCES A NICE THING TO DO?
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     MC:  RIGHT, OK.  WHO WOULD PROVIDE THE MUSIC AT ONE OF THOSE DANCES? 
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     MRS BARR:  At the DANCES.  571
     MC:  SO WHEN DID YOU STOP GOING TO THE DANCES?         575
     CF:  But after we were married we didn't go regularly to DANCES.
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     MC:  RIGHT.  DO YOU THINK GENERALLY SPEAKING THAT THAT WAS TYPICAL.  THAT 
THE  DANCES TENDED TO BE UNMARRIED PEOPLE?                       591
     CF:  Certain DANCES, yes.  Like there were Burns Club for instance.  They 
were  mainly young and old.           593
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     *MC:  DID YOU EVER GO TO DANCES?                       306
     MG:  Not much.  Very strict household, ours.  My father had probably seen 
an awful  lot of life with people having babies that shouldn't and that sort of 
thing round his  district.  We never went unless the boy was approved.  They had 
no school DANCES at  Archerfield I remember.  I went to Tech and there was a 
social once and I can remember a  boy in the orchestra asked me.  I don't know 
where he came from and I don't even  remember his name.  My father didn't know 
who he was and he wouldn't let me go.  I  thought that was hard because if he 
wanted to make sure then he could have taken me in  the car, dropped me there 
and picked me up.                 308       We had a social at Training College 
but there were hardly any men because they  were all away at the war.  We had 
what we called the flatfooted bespectacled youth that  was left.  Three sections 
of girls to one of boys.  So in a way the war did a lot of  damage to our youth 
at a time when people would be going to DANCES and things.  Any  boyfriend you 
had would have gone to the war or something.  309
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs RG...
     RG:  Why did we shift?  Well the family were growing up and going out to 
DANCES.   It was a matter of getting home late at night on the last trams and 
that sort of thing.   then too my eldest sister died in 1921.  She was just 21.  
I think the family felt  unsettled after that too.        43      RG:  No.  I 
played bridge quite a bit in my youth, in my teenage because it was  sort of, 
well a lot of people played, well everybody played cards. But I think my  
sisters, I don't remember them going out to play cards.  I remember them going 
out to  DANCES because it was quite a fuss if they were going to dancing.  But I 
don't remember  actually what their pastimes otherwise were.  But I daresay it 
was playing cards.  It  might have been whist or 500 in their time.                 
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     MC:  NOW DID PEOPLE GO TO DANCES MUCH WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG?

     MC:  WHAT KIND OF DANCES WOULD YOU LEARN?              715
     MC:  NOW WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DANCES AND DANCE CLASSES AND CAN YOU TELL ME 
WHICH 
DANCES YOU WENT TO?  WAS THERE A REGULAR DANCE THAT YOU ATTENDED MAYBE ON A 
SATURDAY 
NIGHT?                          743
     RG:  Supper, yes.  Sit down supper at a big ball.  They used to hold DANCES 
down in  what is now the Early Settlers Hall.  It was the part that was the 
Museum.  What did  they call it?  You know the Early Settlers Hall was what did 
they call it?  There was  another hall attached to it and we used to have a lot 
of dances in that.  Of course  during the war years, especially the 14Ð18 war, 
not that I went to the dances then but  my sisters went to dances raising money 
for different things.                               761
     MC:  RIGHT, RIGHT.  I'VE HEARD THAT THERE WERE DANCES IN THE TOWN HALL.                
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     RG:  Yes.  Those were the big DANCES.                  765
     MC:  AND SO WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO THE DANCES BY THEN I SUPPOSE THE FAMILY 
LIVED IN  HIGH STREET?                    823
     RG:  By the time I was going to DANCES, yes.           825
     RG:  No.  By that time the boys had motorcars.  By the time I was going to 
DANCES.   If they didn't have motorcars they had their fathers' cars and were 
allowed their  fathers' cars.  But that was why we shifted, one of the reasons 
why we shifted from St  Clair because that meant it was too far for the boys to 
see the girls home.  They'd then  have to walk back to goodness knows where.                  
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     MC:  RIGHT.  RIGHT.  BECAUSE WAS IT THE CASE THAT WHEN YOUR OLDER SISTERS 
WERE 
GOING TO DANCES THE BOYS THEN DIDN'T HAVE CARS AS OFTEN?    831
     RG:  Once I was engaged I think perhaps I got a bit more liberties than 
otherwise.   But no, I think generally speaking I don't think many of the DANCES 
went on actually the  dance itself wouldn't go on, but how long you took to come 
home was your business.          857      MC:  HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU STARTED 
GOING TO THE DANCES?                            859      RG:  Certainly not as 
young as they go today like you know there's 14, 15Ð years  old seem to get out 
to DANCES these days.  And your parents always had to know where you  were going 
and who you were going with.                     869
     RG:  At least I don't think I gave you that impression.  I don't know what. 
I can't  think of anything.  No.  I belonged to a junior political party. It was 
Mr Forbes.  What  party was that?  Away back when I was a teenager. But I think 
it was mainly because they  had DANCES every month or something like that.  
Social. But there was a group of us and  we all went along together.    1024
     MC:  WHAT KIND OF ACTIVITIES APART FROM THE DANCES DID BELONGING TO A 
POLITICAL  PARTY ENTAIL?                  1026
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+++ Searching document int.Grimmett, Bert...
     MC:     WHAT WERE THE SOCIALS? WERE THEY DANCES OR -   119
     BG:     Yes - when you look on back on them now it 's laughable, you know, 
a bit  childish, one of those sort of games they used to play ... oh, heck. Oh, 
it was kids '  stuff, really. And - but they didn 't have DANCES, because my 
wife 's family were  Baptists, they frowned on dancing. [indistinct] So - and 
the Presbyterians were the  same, in those days, but we had fairly good social 
evenings, you know, everybody was  wound up and after - we went to a few and you 
were sort of let into the elite of the  people that - to come on out and have a 
drink. A few [indistinct] out in the toilets.  Oh, lot of fun.                 
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     MC:     WERE THERE DANCES HELD ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY?  131
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+++ Searching document int.Grimmett, Bert (2)...
     MC:     WHAT WERE THE SOCIALS? WERE THEY DANCES OR -   256
And - but they didn't have DANCES because my wife's family were
261      MC:     WERE THERE DANCES HELD ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY?  290
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MH...
     MH:  Really got to know one another.  We used to go to all the DANCES.
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     MC:  WERE THERE MANY DANCES HELD?                      273
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+++ Searching document int.Harris, Bill & Frances...
      FH:      And we used to go out to DANCES and parties, so it used to be 
about -  there was about eight of us all together, and we sort of kept that 
group.                   924
      WH:  - but we did go to a lot of DANCES.             2056
      MC:  MMM.  NOW THESE DANCES, HOW OFTEN WERE THEY HELD?
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      WH:  - and then they used to have one at the Fire Brigade hall, the Fire 
Station  in Castle Street, they used to run DANCES there and of course there 
were lots of other  halls but the Town Hall of course it was one of the biggest 
dances in Australasia.  It  was always packed on a Saturday night.  They'd come 
from everywhere for that.              2118
      MC:  MMM, MMM.  AND WERE THERE LOTS OF LITTLE DANCES BEING RUN?
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      WH:  Oh yes, yes.  See a lot of the Lodges had their, ran their DANCES. 
Like  Forresters Lodge and, ah, there was, you know, there was South Dunedin 
hall and the one  at Forbury Corner here where the Waterloo is, was a hall where 
they used to have dances.  
                               2122
      MC:  RIGHT.  AND HOW MANY DANCES MRS HARRIS DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD GO TO, 
IN A 
WEEK SAY.                      2124
      WH:  But that was always a form of entertainment, was your DANCES.
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+++ Searching document int.Harrison, Ellen...
     MC:  WOULD YOU GO TO FILMS TOGETHER OR DANCES?         304
     Ah boys, and we used to go to DANCES.  The, there was a place called the 
Marigold,  Marigold something or other over at Andersons Bay and they seemed to 
run regular dances  more of the type of thing like a tennis club dance or a 
netball dance or something like  that.  And then there was the tea kiosk which 
was very, very popular before the war and  um and they used to hold quite a 
number of University parties there too.  And then of  course Cargills Castle was 
the place to go.                 311
     EH:  When?  This would be from about 1937.  It was probably going before 
that but  from 1936, 35 perhaps.  There would be regular Saturday night DANCES 
up there with Harry  McClatchies band.  It was a beautiful dance floor, it was a 
sprung floor, they always  used to have nice suppers and things, but it was a 
wretched road to get to, it was very,  very narrow and rocky and muddy, but once 
you got there it was fine.                        319
     MC:  DID YOU GO TO DANCES?                             361
     MC:  DID YOU GO TO MANY DANCES?                        365
     EH:  Yes, but not at that age.  We used to have school DANCES. Always in 
capping  week the students would be invited up to the school and I'd been 
looking forward to  this, um, I was boarding at the school at the time and this 
particular year the students  were invited up and I was, I caught some sort of 
bug and the treatment was um a quarter  of cup of castor oil, followed by a 
quarter of a cup of orange juice, and I was so ill  after that, I'd been sick 
before but I was ill after that, I didn't get the opportunity 
to dance with those boys.       367
     EH:  Well I went to a girls school you see so that um no we didn't have 
anything  like that.  At University we used to, we used to have the various 
faculty's would have a  ball.  I think it would probably be, it wouldn't be 
around capping time, it may have  been round capping time but it was always 
something quite large in the Town Hall.  The  first ball of the year was always 
the Charity Ball when the Bishop used to receive the  debutantes and then all 
the other sort of balls used to followed on from that so it  would probably, yes 
it might have been round about capping time.  There would be the  Medical Ball, 
the Dental Ball and the Commerce Ball and all those things.  I've got a  lot of 
photos of the DANCES and things then but I don't know where they are are the 
moment, they're buried under something.                     371
     EH:  Well not on my, not from me but the boys used to um used to smuggle 
the drink  in because with six o'clock closing you see, there was a lot of 
restrictions but they  used to bring in bottles labelled ginger ale which wasn't 
ginger ale.  I know they used  to get up to those sorts of tricks.  (MC: MMM)  
But no, they were always very well  organised and very well run.  Some of the 
bigger balls, they always started off with  this march, the Grand Old Duke of 
York, have you seen that?  Mmmm and this always seemed   to get things going but 
um, I never liked the square DANCES where they played, the boys  would wind 
things up to such a degree that you couldn't keep your feet on the ground.       
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+++ Searching document int.Ingram, C.W.N....
CI:On the spot. They'd come around and they would know, they asked me about my 
shanghai  and he says "where have you got it hidden" and I didn't know he was 
only guessing. And  he said "now break that thing up and never let me see it 
again" and just walked on. But  they handled everything. There was trouble at 
the freezing works and one man had the  whole thing terrorised and he could 
fight this fellow, he worked at the freezing works  and he used to stir up 
trouble at the Saturday night DANCES. Everybody was frightened of  him. He 
really had the district terrorised so they sent out one constable from town, he  
came from Takanui in Central Otago, Two brothers - they were legends in their 
own time,  So he went down there and he asked for this chap and they said "he's 
not here" and he  said "tell him I'm looking for him". So the fellow came 
looking for him and he said "so  you're the one who has been causing the 
trouble. Alright, its you and I for it". And he  took off his uniform~coat and 
helmet and they had a real set to. I believe it was a real  donnybrook. But the 
policeman won and there was no more trouble. You see there is no  arrests.
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+++ Searching document int.Isaac, Bill & Alice...
      BI:  Well, no, they had a ladies' lodge and men's lodge.  But they'd visit 
each  other.  And they had DANCES, they had competitions.         559
      MC:  RIGHT.  DID YOU GO TO OTHER DANCES AS WELL?      839
      AI:  Oh yes, we did.  I went to hockey DANCES too and then there was the 
Town Hall  dance which some went too.  I didn't go to that very much because we 
mostly just went to  the church things.  (MC: RIGHT)  We learnt to dance at the 
evenings, we had evenings and  we learnt to dance, then we went and practised it 
Ðwhat we learned.                         841
      BI:  No, you'd have your learning and we'd have ours.  It was a shambles. 
We learn  to dance together at DANCES.    855
      AI:  At DANCES, yes.      857
      AI:  But then we had enough DANCES so that they could practice together 
quite a  bit.  (MC: RIGHT)  We had a dance once a month or something like that. 
We used to dance  sets.  The Lancers and the Quadrilles and all those sort of 
things and we weren't  allowed to make a noise because, you know, there was a 
lot of noise about those.  You'd  lift your hands up and you'd to shhh, that's 
what we used to have to do because it was a  Saturday night and we didn't want 
to disturb the neighbours roundabout.  There were  neighbours living right next 
to the church down in, what's it called now, Pencarrow  Street isn't it.  No, 
not Pencarrow, the one (BI: Eastbourne...) Eastbourne Street. 
(...Eastbourne and Baker Street)                            867
      MC:  RIGHT.  YES, SOME OF THOSE DANCES WHERE PEOPLE CAN GET VERY NOISY 
DOING THEM,  CAN'T THEY?                     869
      MC:  NOW, WHAT TIME WOULD THOSE DANCES END?           881
      AI:  We always had supper.  (BI:  oh yes)  They always had supper in those 
days,  didn't use to cost the earth to get either but in the end they gave up 
church DANCES  down there I believe because there was too much drink being 
bought to them.                 891
      AI:  Ah, some years ago now.  I remember somebody saying about that, had 
DANCES  hadn't they. (BI: yes, they did) Was that when our children went, 20 odd 
years ago now.   Our ones are all their 40s now.                             895
      AI:  They didn't have DANCES at the Presbyterian Church.  They had social  
evenings, but they didn't have dances.  They used to like to come to our ones.
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      *MC:  RIGHT, OK.  NOW, APART FROM GOING TO THE DANCES, WHAT KIND OF THINGS 
WOULD  YOU BE DOING FOR FUN WHEN YOU WERE JUST PAST SCHOOL AND BEGINNING TO 
WORK, OR YOU KNOW  IN YOUR LATER YEARS AT SCHOOL?  925
      MC:  WHAT KIND OF THINGS DID YOU DO MRS ISAAC, APART FROM THE CHURCH 
DANCES THAT  WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, FOR FUN?    953
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+++ Searching document int.Jeffries, Margaret...
      MC:      MMM. RIGHT. I 'M GOING TO BE ASKING YOU SOME MORE ABOUT DANCES 
LATER, SO -  
                                285
      MJ:      I think Daphne met Jim, that 's my sister-in-law, met uhm, Jim 
because -  Daphne lived at Ravensbourne, Jim lived in Port and I think they met 
on the train. They  used to go up on the train to work. Or DANCES, things like 
that. My sister Nancy how did  she met Allen? I don 't know. Whether that it was 
because she played cricket and he  played cricket. Was that how - I can 't 
remember that. Yes. And Ivy and Walter, they met  at a scout dance. He was in 
the scouts and Ivy used to love dancing, and Doris and Drew  met through the 
Baptist Church at Caversham, Drew used to go there, and Doris would go  there 
for bible class, Girls Brigade. She met Drew there. Uhm, Lex met Olive when they  
up at the bible training institute in Auckland, they, they did their training 
together,  and Doug met Doreen at a St. Kilda dance, and Ann met John through 
the Scottish Country  dancing.                        483
      MJ:      Oh, how about that. We 'd go out to the beach, go to the DANCES, 
go to the  pictures. Go to town on a Friday night, perhaps look in the shops, 
but this was no  hanging around the streets. Go to the pictures - mind you, we 
had, even though I was  working and perhaps sixteen or seventeen, we had to be 
home as soon as the pictures  finished, we were - that didn 't mean, mean to say 
we couldn 't have a boyfriend on the  way home, but no, and we had - still asked 
dad, you know, if we could go to the dance.      691
      MC:      WHEN DID YOU START GOING TO DANCES. APART FROM THAT FIRST ONE 
THAT YOU  WENT TO WHEN YOU WERE FOURTEEN?                             693
      MJ:      And - cause at MacAndrew Road we would tear up MacAndrew - eh, 
Helena  Street, get the tram and get off at our stop, up we 'd go up the hill, 
and I never ever  abused that, never. Every Saturday night, and then there 's 
DANCES in the middle of the  week and perhaps we 'd go there. It was good.
715
      MC:      MMM. MMM. HOW MANY DANCES A WEEK DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN 
GOING 
TO?                             717
      MC:      WHO WOULD YOU NORMALLY GO TO THE DANCES WITH?
745
      MC:      OK. WAS THAT HOW MOST PEOPLE WENT TO THE DANCES, THEY 'D GO WITH 
A FRIEND,  OR THEY 'D GO IN A LARGE GROUP OR?                           757
      MJ:      When I was in St. John we used to have rosters too to go and do 
the  supper. And you used to love to go out there, because we could all eat. 
They, they had  big long tables, and we had to put out saucers at so many 
places, and you got two  sandwiches and two cakes, they were - and then you got 
your tea afterwards there, and by  the time - we 'd do that and stand around 
there and we 'd get DANCES and have to be back  into the kitchen again. To the 
supper room.                 799
      MC:      MMM. WHAT HAPPENED ... WHEN YOU GOT MARRIED. DID YOU GO ON GOING 
TO THE  DANCES?                         853
      MC:      WHAT WAS THE KIND OF UPPER AGE RANGE OF PEOPLE WHO WENT TO THE 
DANCES?       861
      MJ:      Oh, there used to be a lot of DANCES in those days. The fire 
station used  to have one, St. John 's, down there, St. Kilda, and then Joe 
Brown started up the Town  Hall Dance. Yes.                871
      *MC:      MMM. WHEN YOU WERE A BIT OLDER AND WORKING, GOING OUT DANCES, 
WHERE DID  YOU GET THE DRESSES?           1323
      MC:      DID YOU - WERE, WERE THE FRIEND, THAT YOU WENT OUT TO DANCES 
WITH, WOULD  YOU EVER KIND OF BORROW ONE OF HER DRESSES TO WEAR IF YOU 
PARTICULARLY LIKED IT?           1331
      MC:      DID YOU GO OUT TO DANCES AND THINGS WHILE YOU WERE UP THERE?
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs HJ...
SB: MMM. WHAT WAS THE VIEW OF THE CHURCH WITH REGARD TO SAY GOING TO THE MOVIES 
AND  GOING TO DANCES AND THINGS?    1018
HJ: Oh, well, DANCES were out as far as we were concerned growing up, but no, 
not  movies, but you had -          1020
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+++ Searching document int.Jones, Joyce...
      JJ:  I don't know.  With our bikes we'd go on bike rides.  Pack little 
picnics and  ride down to Company Bay or down that way round the bays out to 
Brighton. Used to go up  the river in the boats at Brighton.  The films, the 
pictures and DANCES when I got old  enough and was allowed to go to dances. 
You'd go two or three times a week to the  dances.                         225
      MC:  WHERE WERE THE DANCES?                           227
      MC:  AND YOU'D GO TO TWO OR THREE DANCES A WEEK.      231
      MC:  WHAT WERE THE THINGS THAT YOUR PARENTS MIGHT HAVE BEEN CONCERNED 
ABOUT WITH 
LETTING YOU GO TO DANCES?       243
      JJ:  I don't think they worried about that really.  Our father would come 
with us  sometimes.  He loved coming down to the Macandrew Road DANCES.
245
      MC:  WAS IT THE SAME GROUP OF ABOUT SEVEN FRIENDS THAT YOU WENT ON PICNICS 
WITH  AND WALKS WITH AND WENT TO DANCES WITH?                     255
      JJ:  Through the DANCES.  I used to go to the dances and one of the men in 
the  band, he and his wife lived with my husband's mother and father.
871       JJ:  Well we used to follow the one dance band around.  One of the men 
in that  dance band was my husband's brotherÐinÐlaw.  He told him to come out to 
the DANCES.  He  was a shy boy and he made him come out to the dances and 
introduced him to me and that  was the finish of him.          879
      JJ:  My husband and I?  Pictures on a Saturday or a Friday night.  
Pictures on a  Friday night probably.  And the DANCES on the Saturday.  He was 
an outdoor chap.  He  liked going out tramping Silver Peaks.  That wasn't my 
thing at all.  But he liked to go  to Evansdale with a crowd of his friends.  
They would shoot rabbits. They would go out  on a Friday night in an old car and 
shoot out at Evansdale.                                 883
      JJ:  No not really.  Not then, no.  Although we all still went to the same 
DANCES.  
We still mixed.                 899
      JJ:  But we didn't go out with one another the same but we were all at the 
same  DANCES.                         903
      MC:  SO WOULD YOU GO TO DANCES WITH HIM?              905
      JJ:  There'd be DANCES.  Would there be films?  I wouldn't know about 
films then.    1099       JJ:  They went to each other's houses.  When one got 
married they all would go to  the house.  Probably like a kitchen evening type 
of thing. They had all those things.   And there'd beDANCES.          1103
      MC:  DID SHE TELL YOU ABOUT THE DANCES?              1105
      JJ:  Yes, in his later life he was.  He worked at Shacklocks.  He used to 
play the  fiddle as it was called in those days for the DANCES.  He liked that. 
I don't know when  he joined the Brethren.  He just got terribly strict and the 
girls had to tow the line.   But the boys were allowed out.
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+++ Searching document int.Jory, Rita & Wellman, Louise...
      We used to go out there for holidays and that, which we did.  We had this 
one big  gramophone out there and we took a lot of these records out there. Of 
course we used to  have DANCES in the big kitchen with the gramophone going. We 
had a lovely time.  But  they got lost.                  727
      MC:  RIGHT.  DID YOU EVER GO TO DANCES?               839
      RJ:  School friends and, I don't know.  I went to Anderson's Bay. We went 
to a lot  of DANCES.  They put on dances at the school.  Incidentally Caversham 
ran a dance every  Saturday night to get funds for something.  I can't remember 
what the funds were.   Father was always on the door.  I used to tag along and 
have a lovely time.                 861
      I particularly remember a frock I had.  I couldn't tell you to this day 
where I  got it.  I'm sure my mother didn't approve of it.  It was beautiful 
green georgette and  it was beaded.  It had silver beads all over.  At that time 
strangely enough with the  fashion of short dresses way up above your knee that 
must have been the 1920s, mustn't  it?  Must have been the 1920s.  I had this 
frock and I just thought I was Christmas.   I've never forgotten.  It was my 
first really glamorous one.  But they had lovely DANCES  then at the Caversham 
School gymnasium.  The old school, not the new one.                   863
      MC:  SO DO YOU THINK A LOT OF YOUR GIRLFRIENDS MET THEIR HUSBANDS AT THE 
DANCES?      873
      LW:  We used to go to DANCES out there too.           883
      MC:  HOW WERE YOU CHAPERONED AT THE DANCES?           885
      RJ:  We used to do the seat DANCES.  The boys would swing you off your 
feet you  know like the lancers and drills.                           891
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+++ Searching document int.Miss CJ...
      *MC:  DID YOU DO THINGS LIKE GO OUT TO DANCES AT ALL?
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      CJ:  No, not very much.  Um, I had to be pushed into going to dancing 
classes at  high school.  And I think once again it was because of my height.  I 
was always so  short.  I went to one or two DANCES but not regularly. There was 
the Town Hall dance in  those days and sometimes after Shakespeare Club we would 
go upstairs and have a look  down and see what was going on but that was enough 
for me.  625
      MC:  NOW, DO YOU REMEMBER EITHER COMING ACROSS ANY DISAPPROVAL OF DANCES?
627
      CJ:  Ah, well yes there was instance where somebody wanted to introduce 
DANCES  into our church and there was one elder in particular who really left 
the church because  he didn't want dancing in the church.                       
629
      CJ:  Yes, yes, mmm.  So yes, I have known of disapproval of DANCES.
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+++ Searching document int.Kennedy, James Ronayne...
SB: YEAH. DID YOU GO TO DANCES? LIKE . . .?                 176
RK: There were occasional DANCES down here in the St Patrick's School Hall. That 
was  years ago. Its no longer there, it was pulled down. But no, at our age, 
when we were  dancing I'd say St Joseph's was the . . . because they had a 
terrific orchestra. And of  course in those days when you danced you also sang.
226
SB: UH-HMM. YEAH. THESE DANCES AT ST JOSEPH'S WOULD THEY BE MAINLY CATHOLIC OR? 
WHO WENT?   228
RK: But, no, we never thought of drinking and going to DANCES. It's something 
new!          262
SB: HMM. DID YOUR PARENTS EVER PLACE RESTRICTIONS ON YOU WITH REGARDS GOING TO 
THE 
MOVIES, READING BOOKS, READING COMICS, OR GOING TO DANCES - ANY SORT OF 
RESTRICTIONS?       804
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+++ Searching document int.Kenny, Frances...
      MC:      WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER AND GOING TO THE DANCES BEFORE YOU GOT 
MARRIED, DID  IT BOTHER YOU THEN, WALKING HOME ON YOUR OWN?               405
      MC:      AND GOING TO THE DANCES TOGETHER AND -       501
      MC:      RIGHT. OK.  DID YOU START GOING TO THE DANCES BEFORE YOU LEFT 
SCHOOL?        971
      MC:      OK. WHAT WAS YOUR PARENTS ' ATTITUDE TO THINGS LIKE THE DANCES?
979
      MC:      WAS IT LIKE THAT FOR ALL THE DANCES?        1011
      MC:      MMM. OK. DID YOU GO TO THE BIG TOWN HALL DANCES AT ALL?
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+++ Searching document int.Lumb, Janet Stewart...
      JL:      Kaikorai, I should say. So I thought, oh well there will be some 
boys to  dance with. But they didn 't come evidently, I don 't remember, I ... I 
think that was the  story, they didn 't come. Anyway, my future husband came 
with a married sister. Her  husband didn 't dance, so according to him, he was 
dragged along to this dance. He didn 't  want to go either, but he went along. 
And he asked me for a few DANCES, and ... and he  asked to take me home. So that 
was the beginning of our romance. So we, we lived not  very far from one 
another. Mmm.                             211
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+++ Searching document int.Maher, Hilda...
HM:      Oh yes, yes.  'Cos DANCES were all the rage in those times.  We did 
dancing  nearly [indistinct] every night.                            419
MC:      WHERE WERE THE DANCES HELD?                        429
*MC:      WAS THERE MUCH ADULT SUPERVISION AT THESE DANCES?
505
HM:      Oh, no, no, no.  There was an MC, we'd call an MC the person that would 
run it  and they  always had someone on the hall that would sort of scrutinise 
you know ... .   Mind you remember that it was in the depression it was sixpence 
admission and if you  were going with a boy it was really [indistinct] and you 
used to just say "I'll meet you  inside".  He couldn't afford to pay for you as 
well as himself, and umm, it was about  the only thing that they could go to, 
that people could go to join those young ones.  
But DANCES were very well patronised.                       515
*MC:      OK.  GOING BACK TO BEFORE YOU WERE MARRIED.  APART FROM THE DANCES AND 
THE  PICNICS THAT YOU MENTIONED, WE THERE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU DID FOR FUN, 
OTHER KIND OF  LESURE ACTIVITIES?              917
HM:      Oh, well we could have been wanting to go or, or met somewhere, or you 
now,  down the Gardens.  Woodhaugh used to be a popular place to go and we could 
get  [indistinct] and um perhaps wanting to go to a picnic or something. Some of 
those  places.  And um some of the boys that we knew that went to the DANCES, 
one of them had a  old van and used to pick us up sometimes and take us to 
Brighton for a picnic.  Used to  push it up Lookout Point roll down (laughs) 
nicely, push it back up [indistinct] going  up (laughs).                   1027
*MC:      DID YOU FIND THAT, ONCE YOU GOT MARRIED, YOUR SOCIAL LIFE CALMED DOWN 
A BIT,  OR WERE YOU STILL GOING OUT TO THE DANCES REALLY OFTEN?    1033
HM:      Oh no, no, no.  No we didn't, no.  We didn't go to the DANCES then.
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MC:      AT THE DANCES AND ...                             1045
*MC:      WHERE DID YOU GET MONEY FOR THINGS LIKE, FOR EVENING DRESSES THAT YOU 
WORE TO  DANCES.  IF  THEY WERE A GUINEA?                           1097
*MC:      ONCE YOU GOT MARRIED AND YOU STOPPED GOING OUT TO THE DANCES AND 
THINGS LIKE  THAT, WHAT KIND OF - WHAT WAS YOUR FOCUS THEN?             1317
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+++ Searching document int.Mr LM...
SB: HMM. DID THE CAVERSHAM ASSEMBLY HAVE DANCES LIKE THE PRESBYTERIANS?
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+++ Searching document int.Maskell part 1...
RM: High church at that stage too, the Dean lived next door. I finished up in 
the choir  with the result that I would have three attenDANCES on an Easter 
Sunday and two  attendances other days where you had to get into surplices and 
collars	.                    420
RM:He played bowls for a year or two. No. He had his work, family and friends. A 
good  social life. There used to be in the '20s lots of firms balls, DANCES and 
they would be  out every second Saturday. They would go to the [unclear] ball or 
the A&T Burt ball.        619
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+++ Searching document int.Maskell part 2...
RM: No.She would have a drink and they would drink, mentioned that they would go 
to  balls, DANCES .. and drink would be a part of the night out ... they had 
people in they  would have drinks as well as play cards.                    208
MW: AND ONCE YOU'D LEARNED HOW TO DANCE WHERE DID YOU GO TO DO THESE DANCES?
550
.. more than monthly, might've been fortnightly DANCES .. you see there
553
RM:That's right. .. And the square DANCES, lancers .. maxina ..
575
RM:In 1931 I would go to the Saturday night DANCES with the people who were 
probationers  and go to college the next year and we would go there as a group. 
We sort of didn't pair 
off.                            579
MW:SO THESE OTHER DANCES WEREN'T FORMAL?                    585
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+++ Searching document int.McCracken, Ken and Velda...
      *MC:      TELL ME HOW - DID YOU GO TO DANCES?        1786
      MC:      WHICH DANCES WOULD YOU GO TO, IF YOU WEREN 'T GOING TO THINGS 
LIKE THE  TOWN HALL DANCE?               1790
      MC:      MMM. MMM. OK. ABOUT WHAT AGE WERE YOU WHEN YOU STARTED GOING OUT 
TO  DANCES?                        1810
      MC:      GO OUT TO DANCES?                           1830
      MC:      ONE OF THE OTHER DIFFERENCES THAT I 'VE BECOME AWARE OF IN 
TALKING TO  PEOPLE ABOUT WAS THAT THE DANCES OFTEN SEEMED TO HAVE AN ALCOHOL 
BAN.                      1838
      MC:      HOW ... WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN - WHY WAS IT THAT YOU 
WOULDN 'T GO  TO THE TOWN HALL DANCES, DO YOU THINK? WAS THAT YOUR DECISION OR 
WAS IT JUST -             1866
      KM:      I used to go to DANCES.                     1874
      MC:      RIGHT. HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU STARTED GOING OUT TO DANCES?
1890
      MC:       YES. AND MAY, YOU SAID SOMETHING EARLIER ABOUT HOW THERE WAS 
ALCOHOL AT  THE DANCES, BUT IT WAS HIDDEN.                             1926
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+++ Searching document int.Melville, Colin...
CM: We didn't have DANCES ah, in the church precincts ah, till later. I'm not 
quite sure  whether it was after the war but we had dances ah, that were 
organised. We used to go,  some of the dances were out the Hydro out at St 
Clair. They got a tea rooms out there  now I think, and we went out there had 
dances and one of the leaders had a basement  where we went and had dances and 
so forth. It was after, I think it was some time after  the war that they 
started to have dances and some of them were very large gatherings.       397
CM: I went, I didn't go often but I know they had DANCES there.
525 CM: Well I think, and one might say one picked it up in a sense. But of 
course, if they  were proper DANCES, the magazine and so forth ah, you know, 
there were a proper waltz  and foxtrots and one steps and what not, [MC: right] 
you know, they weren't just these  shuffle things.                 533
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '01...
MM: Oh yes. They weren't narrow Baptists or anything like that. They were quite 
--- we  were allowed to go to DANCES. Mum had been to --- when she was young she 
was allowed to  go to dances. We went to dances if we wanted to. And some of the 
others, their parents  would have been horrified - in fact Ken Denton's wife, 
Joyce, she wasn't allowed to go  to dances, and she would have loved to have 
gone. But we were allowed to go. But that  was my father's sister, her mother. 
But no, we were allowed to go. Mum saw nothing wrong  with it. She'd been 
brought up in the country and went to dances, and well, there was  nothing wrong 
with them anyway. As an old lady said: "we're better off at dances than  some of 
these socials".         257
MM: Oh I used to think it was terrible when people knitted on a Sunday. Ha ha. 
We were  talking about Freddy Jones' daughter-in-law they used to sit outside on 
a Sunday and  knit. We thought that was terrible. And you didn't go to the beach 
on a Sunday. That  sort of thing. Lots of church people didn't do that. Didn't 
go and buy anything on a  Sunday either. But we thought that was terrible to 
knit on a Sunday - now I knit  everyday of the week. But no, those sort of 
things were a bit narrow then. But I can't   - some of the ones weren't allowed 
to go to the Pictures - we were, but they weren't  allowed to do that - some of 
the others weren't allowed to do that. We had a dance at  our wedding, well some 
of them, it was the first dance they'd been to wasn't it? They  weren't allowed 
to go to DANCES before that. But we had one. And even the minister -  what would 
he have been? Was he Methodist?                  265
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs LMM '98...
      LMM:      Oh, a lot of the time we did go with the group, you know, if we 
'd go -  mo - mostly just for walks or go to the pictures or that kind - mostly 
that sort of  thing, oh, on occasion we did DANCES, I was liked but he wasn 't 
all that enthused, but  we used to go occasionally to dances but not a great 
lot, you know.                         273
      MC:      WHO RAN THE DANCES?                          275
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+++ Searching document int.Mr JRMM...

+++ Searching document int.Mrs NN...
      And, oh, yes, we were kept very, very busy, and then Joe Brown started his 
DANCES,  you may have heard of that, they - he got, they ordered the cakes from 
there, you see,  and we were packing dozens and dozens of cakes. We started with 
a few, and then we were  packing and it didn 't - and then it increased and 
increased, and I was never at any of  the dances, but ... there must have been 
crowds there just the same.                        114
      MC:      AND DID YOU GO DANCES OR -                   242
      NN:      Yes, they used to have, uhm, had DANCES for a while, and ... oh, 
I can 't  remember. My memory is not what is was now. Old age.        314
      NN:      Fun? Oh, I can 't remember what we did. Oh, we did go to concerts 
and  things, there were a lot of concerts on in those days, and they were good. 
That, eh ...  oh, yes, there were a lot, and DANCES and that sort of thing. Mmm.
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs NN...
      JN:      That 's gone now. I think that 's where we 'd more or less meet 
everybody  because it was all DANCES and all that sort of thing and that, it was 
a wonderful age  really. You know, we had lots of fun.                      1058
      JN:      Eh, well, with DANCES they finished right on, on twelve o 'clock 
exactly,  and they used to play, was it Old Ensign, or, or the, the, the Good 
Save the Queen, I  can 't remember, and, and then, and then we went home, so 
that finished at twelve o 'clock  and I had to be home by quarter to one.
1090
      MC:      AND DANCES?     1124
      JN:      Oh yes, pictures and DANCES.                1126
      JN:      That was the majority of it. I think it, it used to be at one 
time  mostly, eh, before you went to DANCES, I think, you know, it would be the 
pictures on  Saturday night, you know -     1130
      *MC:      MMM. OK. NOW ... I WAS WONDERING, WE HAVE TALKED A BIT ABOUT 
GOING TO  THE PICTURES AND THE DANCES -  1626
      JN:      Yes, there were different DANCES that were on at the - there were 
quite a  lot of dances on at that time.                             1636       
JN:      I can 't remember the name - there was one around in Moray Place that 
we  used to go to sometimes, and, yes, that would be - or, or any dance that was 
- there  were loads of DANCES, you see, and, yes, and any dance that, you know, 
somebody 's sort  of, you know, some of the girls were going there, and we 'd 
all go, you know, we go  there, and it wasn 't like, like you, you - I don 't 
know that you can go without a  partner nowadays, but, but you could, you could 
go without a partner, you know, go with  the girls, and then, you know, when 
you, when I look back I think how funny it was,  because, you know, the, the 
men, like - you know what men are like, and they would all  stand together and 
then when the music started and they started at eight o 'clock sharp  of course, 
and, and then they would make a dive for whoever they wanted to dance with,  you 
know, that sort of thing, and then -                   1640
      *MC:      NOW, HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU STARTED GOING TO DANCES?
1664
      JN:      Well, actually, I was very young, because - I 'd only be about 
fourteen,  because my mother used to help, or the lady next door to us, they 
sort of ran the  DANCES, and, and so my mother used to go and help with the 
supper and so did this other  lady and a lot of others, because we always had a, 
a lovely supper there, so I used to -   so I, I was able to go, because they 
were there.           1666
      MC:      DID THEY HELP WITH SPECIFIC DANCES OR JUST ...?
1672
      JN:      Oh, yes, they, they did all those quadrilles and all those sort 
of 
DANCES.                        1674
      MC:      OK. HOW WOULD YOU GET TO AND FROM THE DANCES?
1684
      JN:      No, not that I know of, not, not that I know - to went - go to 
DANCES,  but I used to have a bike too, at one - I used to bike to work.
1702
      MC:      RIGHT. UHM ... NOW JUST TO BACKTRACK A WEE BIT, WHAT WAS IT THAT 
YOU WORE  TO DANCES, WAS IT FORMAL DRESS OR..?                       1712
      JN:      That - I don 't think drinks were allowed at the DANCES, I don 't 
think  they were even allowed, but there was always supper and a cup of tea.
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+++ Searching document int.Norman, Annie...
	*TB:	AHA. OK. DID, DID YOU GO TO MANY DANCES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT?
115
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+++ Searching document int.Mr TR...
TR: Oh there's too many hypocrites there. You look at the way they say it and 
they way  they live - it's quite different what they go through and what they 
talk about. Ron used  to sing 'Oh Father ...' --- doesn't matter anyway --- he 
"goes to church on Sunday, to  pray to God to give him strength to hit the kids 
on Monday." The school teacher or  something. Oh, there's plenty of satirical 
stupid nonsense went on, no question about  that. But there was really a reason 
for disillusion and that between the Wars period  because everybody had let 
these men down, they'd gone to War and they'd suffered,  regardless whether they 
came back physically intact or not, they all suffered, and they  came into a 
society which was about to plunge into Depression. And there was marvelous  
rejoicing, post-War boom of new songs and DANCES and introduction of cocaine to 
society  in England and the blue-blood people were celebrating in all directions 
and dancing the  Charleston and all kinds of things. But the men who went to the 
War and came back with  or without a pension, came back to practically nothing 
after that. Nothing - the  provision was made of a sort for some of them to get 
on the farms. The farms were  hopeless from the start. So there was that area of 
desolation and depression anyway,  which almost invited the particular events to 
come. So I don't think that that kind of  criticism was all that frequent. But 
if there was to be anything it would be a cynical  kind of a reason - "Oh, you 
say there's a God. What's He done about things? Can't see  much of His hand 
round here. I can't get much help anyway."                                 460
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          BR:  Would you believe we went to school together but I didn't know 
him that  well at school, I knew who he was at school and he never lived that 
terribly far, he  lived at Forbury Corner and I don't know when school DANCES 
were on they sort of, the  school ones went to school dances that could have 
been how, I don't know how I really  met him that way.               226
          BR:  I wouldn't have a clue.  Going to DANCES and that I suppose would 
be the  most thing.  Because there were plenty of dances to go to in those days, 
not like there  are now.                        234
          MC:  WHAT KIND OF THINGS DID COUPLES DO WHEN THEY WERE COURTING THEN? 
WOULD 
THEY GO TO DANCES TOGETHER AND..?                           236
          MC:  YOU WENT TO THE DANCES DIDN'T YOU?           328
          BR:  Oh yes, I went to any of the DANCES.         330
          MC:  HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU STARTED GOING TO THE DANCES?
332
          BR:  Well to those sort of DANCES it was just short frocks but if you 
went to  a ball you wore a long frock.   338
          BR:  No, no.  I never remember them going to a dance, never.  No.  I 
can't  recall DANCES being for the, what would you say, older people but there 
could have been  but we just didn't know anything about it.                  562
          *MC:  WHEN YOU GOT MARRIED, DID YOU STOP DOING THINGS LIKE GOING TO 
DANCES?       564
          BR:  The regular one, we did go to DANCES but we sort of just picked 
the ones  we wanted to go to.  It was just different dances we would go to, 
social dances, not  social dances but I mean, just different ones we went to.   
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          MC:  YEAH, YEAH.  SO THAT MAYBE THE DANCES TENDED TO BE MORE FOR YOUNG 
MARRIED  COUPLES OR FOR SINGLE PEOPLE THAN FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN MARRIED A WEE 
WHILE AND WHO  MAYBE HAD ONE OR TWO OR MORE CHILDREN.  WOULD THAT BE ACCURATE?
576
          BR:  Well that would be when we'd go to a DANCES or whatever it was we 
were  invited to go to.               586
          MC:  WHAT OTHER KINDS OF THINGS MIGHT YOU DO BESIDES THE DANCES?
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+++ Searching document int.Rutherford, Mr & Mrs...
	I:   AND WHAT DID YOU DO ON SATURDAY NIGHTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT?  WERE 
THERE DANCES AT  ALL?                            403
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+++ Searching document int.Shiel, Miss... Miss S:We always had friends in. We 
used to have DANCES, we used to take the carpet up  and we had a great big 
dining room and ... Sunday I think we had 200 one time ...           799
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+++ Searching document int.Sidey, Stuart...
      MC:      WOULD YOU ALSO DO THINGS LIKE GO TO DANCES?  333
      SS:      Oh yes, there were DANCES, there were university dances. I don't 
ever  remember going to Joe Brown's Town Hall Dances, I remember going to dances 
at Columba  College ... I had a girlfriend there, who was in the - a Columba 
College girl at one  stage. Eh ... there was a place called the Brown House at 
the top of, you know, up North  East Valley?                    335
      MC:      TALKING TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE ABOUT DANCES THAT WERE HELD, IT 
SOUNDS AS  THOUGH AT THE MAJORITY OF THEM ALCOHOL WAS QUITE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, 
BUT IT'S BEEN  SUGGESTED TO ME THAT IT WAS MORE COMMON AT THE UNIVERSITY DANCES 
THAT AT ANY, AT ANY OF  THE OTHERS. WAS THAT YOUR EXPERIENCE?
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      SS:      Yes, I think that would be right. You see, in those days all the 
churches  had bible-classes and they all ran DANCES, and of course there was no 
drink there, and  of course Joe Brown's didn't have drinks in the Town Hall, and 
students used to drink  quite a bit, mostly beer, oh, I can remember taking a 
bottle of...                          343
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+++ Searching document int.Smith, Jean...
	Mrs Smith:  No, no but we just, I can't remember when I had my first taste 
of alcohol  at all.  Our group just didn't seem to worry about that.  We 
belonged to Bible Class and  had Bible Class hops.  We looked forward to the 
Bible Class DANCES and that was really  our social activity.  (MC: right)  And 
the occasional ball, the Military Balls used to 
be fun.                         385
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs ZO...
      *MC:  DID YOU EVER GO TO DANCES?                      225
      Then it got, the screen somehow or other went back up you know and they 
would have  someone playing and they could push the seats aside and they would 
have a wee bit of a  dance you see.  And that got so popular that he, that was 
an all out dance, never mind  the pictures you see and then from that, it made 
him realise that there was a need for  it.  Although looking at some early 
things I had on dance halls, what was going on at  weekends, the DANCES that 
used to be on and so he started it at the Town Hall and that  was very popular.
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      *MC:  WELL THANK YOU FOR THIS, THIS IS EXTREMELY INTERESTING.  YOU 
MENTIONED JUST  A WEE WHILE AGO THAT YOU HAD SOME THINGS ABOUT EARLY DANCES.  
HAVE YOU STILL GOT THOSE?     261
      MC:  WHAT DID YOU DO ABOUT DRESSES TO WEAR TO THE DANCES?
307
      *MC:  ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M WONDERING ABOUT IS WHEN HE WAS RUNNING 
THE TOWN  HALL DANCES, IF THERE WERE THAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE COMING TO THEM, HE 
MUST HAVE HAD PLENTY  OF MONEY.                       353       MC:  RIGHT, SO 
YOU HAD A FULL-TIME JOB DURING THE WEEK AND YOU WERE WORKING  SATURDAY NIGHTS AT 
THE TOWN HALL DANCE (ZS: YES...) AND FOR AWHILE ON SUNDAYS (...YES UP  AT THE 
CASTLE, MMM) AS WELL.  OK.  AT THE SATURDAY  NIGHT DANCES, WHAT WAS IT THAT YOU  
WERE DOING?                     393
      ZS:  Yes, definitely.  As if we couldn't say no.  Of course you see we 
didn't know  things then.  Never, that four legged, that four lettered word, I'd 
never heard in my  life.  And yet strangely enough you know, out at St Clair, as 
I told you it was quite a  nobby area, and yet, some of the families, two or 
three of these families, and big  beautiful homes too, and they used to play 
around with their brothers.  I remember one  of them growling because their 
brother had had an operation, I presume she meant a  circumcision, and ah it 
wasn't nice.  And don't you and your brother - no, golly.  We  couldn't believe 
our ears.  And another lot, they used to have what they called bum  DANCES down 
in the cellar you know, more like bumpity bump business and things like  that. 
But  we used to stand there with open mouths.         583
      *MC:  WHEN YOU MOVED UP TO THIS HOUSE, DID YOU KEEP ON GOING OUT TO 
DANCES?           607
      When he got into the Kaikorai football, it was later on, it would be when 
Mike was  about 12 or so.  He said to Herman that there was going to be a 
meeting over at the  football, 'Why don't you go dad?'  So Herman went and from 
then on he was an avid  follower of football and ah they used to have DANCES 
then so, but he was never that fond  of it you see and he's one that just 
trottles along, and turns the corners and trots  back again.  Whereas to me, the 
moment the music starts you see, and I would want to do  things and he'd get 
wild, anyway, I had my share of those you know.  Always generally  working, 
helping with suppers and things.                   611
      MC:  AND HE WAS ALSO RUNNING THE DANCES FOR A WHILE.
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      MC:      RIGHT. OK. DID YOU EVER GO TO DANCES?        375
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MT...
SB:  DID YOU ALSO ATTEND ANY CHURCH PICNICS OR CAMPS OR DANCES?
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MT:  No.  We never had those.  Church DANCES, yes.  That's how I met George.  
Bible  class dances they were in those days.  Once a month.  Each church once a 
month round the  area would hold a Bible class dance.                       1690 
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+++ Searching document int.Mrs MTd...
      So I stayed there till after the War.  We were there while the War was on.  
We had  great projects for making more - we ran DANCES.  We all went out 
together in groups.  We  had projects for Patriotic Funds.  We ran dances and 
made money.  Of course, through the  War it was very sad because a lot of them 
were married to soldiers overseas.  Some lost  them.  We had some happy times 
there.  We were a good group.  We used to be perhaps in  its day a very rough 
group.  We used to be called the match factory tarts.  We all had  green smocks.  
Then I had a royal blue one.  We all wore smocks.                            106
      MT:  Down to the beach.  I can remember us going away down the valley 
because  there wasn't the traffic the same.  We biked a lot and we danced a lot. 
There was lots  of DANCES in those days and of course it only cost you half a 
crown to go to a dance.   There was a dance at Macandrew Road School.  We went 
every Saturday night.  Every hall  had dances and we went in groups.  We had 
wonderful times.  Through the War we had  wonderful times.                170
      MC: YOU'VE ALREADY TOLD ME THAT, SORRY.  DID THE WAY YOU WERE TREATED IN 
YOUR  FAMILY OR IN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE CHANGE AT ALL WHEN YOU GOT MARRIED? 
WAS THERE A  DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING A YOUNG WOMAN OUT WORKING AND HAVING A 
GOOD TIME WITH HER  FRIENDS AND GOING TO DANCES AND BEING A YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN?
228
      MC:  AT DANCES DID MEN AND WOMEN GET INTRODUCED TO EACH OTHER OR COULD YOU 
JUST  KIND OF WALK UP AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF.                     240
      MT:  Yes.  He asked me to go to supper.  We always had supper at the 
DANCES there.   I said, 'If you'd like to come with our group' which he did and 
it progressed from  there.                          246
      MC:  DID YOU ARRANGE TO MEET AT DANCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT?  WHAT KIND OF 
COURTING RITUALS WERE THERE?    252
      MT:  It was in those days at the match factory.  You all knew the same 
boys. You  all did the same sort of thing, going to DANCES and meeting up with 
different people.   You see there was lots of dances through the week too.  
Monday night there was Caversham  at Holland Hall.  There was one at St Kilda 
and South Dunedin.  There was dances  everywhere.  You could just about be out 
every night of the week if you liked to dance.     270
      MC:  WHAT KIND OF AGE RANGE OF PEOPLE WENT TO THE DANCES?
276
      MT:  From sixteen to perhaps thirty.  School committees ran these DANCES 
for  proceeds for the school.  They were the elderly group.  They wouldn't be 
much older than  thirty.                         278
      MT:  Yes and older.  As old as my mother.  Their daughters went to the 
DANCES and  all.  But you see there was never any liquor allowed at dances in 
those days.  If you  smelt of liquor or anything or had liquor you were more or 
less put out.                    286
      MC:  WERE THERE THINGS THAT YOU DIDN'T DO AT DANCES?  296
      MT:  Oh yes, they kept a real watch over us.  When we ran the DANCES 
through the  war to make money they all came and did the supper, served the 
supper and helped us and  all that sort of thing.         314       Then I had 
another girlfriend that was the Salvation Army one and we went - they  called it 
torchbearers.  This was in the Salvation Army Hall in Dowling Street.  It was  a 
social sort of a thing and we loved it.  We went every Monday night to that.  
The  other girls all came too.  Oh no, it was good.  This is when I used to be 
going to  DANCES and that sort of thing.  Joan worked at the match factory with 
us.                   652
      MT:      Well you talk.  We used to call this forewoman 'The Old Girl' and 
when  she wasn't about, you know, you would talk, you did things behind her back 
and talk to  them, see Peter was younger than me, I'm sure he was, I don't think 
he came to our  DANCES or anything, I don't remember anyway, but most of the 
other men were married men,  but oh no you just chatted to them.
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      MT:      Oh yes, Oh yes we all went to DANCES together.  We all went in 
groups -  you always had friends that you could go out with, always.  922       
MT:      But when we went to DANCES together there would be the group of us that 
there would be a whole seat of us that worked together that we would go to 
dances  together.                       930
      MC:      MMM.  APART FROM THE DANCES WHAT OTHER KINDS OF THINGS DID YOU 
DO?           932
      *MC:      JUST TO GO BACK A BIT TO SOMETHING WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IN OUR 
LAST  CONVERSATION WHEN YOU WERE TALKING TO ME ABOUT THE DANCES, CAN YOU 
REMEMBER THE NAMES OF  THE DANCES THAT YOU USED TO DO?
1008
      MT:      You knew them by, from the music, oh Lancers was another one that 
was an  old one.  We didn't do that very much, but Invercargill they still do 
some of the sets.   Ah, foxtrots, quick steps, Canadian Three, Palmer waltz, see 
we do those still but we do  a lot of new ones now too.  Canadian Three, did I 
say that? Yeah.  See, sets took a wee  while then you had pass on DANCES.  Make 
a big big circle -                                1034
      MC:      SO THAT THESE DANCES WHICH LAST TIME YOU DESCRIBED TO ME AS BEING 
PUT ON  BY SCHOOL COMMITTEES -         1052
      MT:      Oh yes.  See there is a retired musicians' club in Dunedin now 
and they  have the electricity department ran free DANCES down at the South 
Dunedin Town Hall and  there was crowds there and these retired men were young 
men but they are still playing  and they can still play all these dances.
1058
      MT:      They have that at the Bind Institute, there's a charity dance 
there. It's  been going for a few years, but they have stopped now, and those 
chaps were older men  who'd played for years and years.  But see, its a very 
expensive thing to hire a band  now.  See, prices have gone up and most of these 
societies are really having a struggle  to pay the bands.  But Christchurch has 
old time DANCES, wonderful ones, but a lot of  them just have tapes 'cause 
there's lots of tapes on lovely old time music.                1062
      MC:      MMM.  SO WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER AND GOING TO THESE DANCES AND 
WORKING AT 
THE MATCH FACTORY WERE THE PEOPLE IN THE BANDS ALWAYS MEN?
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      MC:      RIGHT.  OK.  THATS ALL I NEED TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE DANCES.
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+++ Searching document int.White, J...
      MC:  WERE YOU GOING TO DANCES MUCH?                   889
      JW:  The DANCES finished at 12 so they didn't linger long.
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+++ Searching document int.Wilkinson, Isabel...
      MC:      WHAT KIND OF THINGS DID PEOPLE DO FOR FUN? DID YOU GO TO DANCES 
OR?          379
      IW:      Yes, going to DANCES, play tennis and hockey, or hockey if people 
wanted  to play hockey, tennis, I played a little tennis, eh ... oh, of course 
people were  interested in going to the theatres ... no, I wasn't a very 
outgoing person so probably  I didn't do as much as other people, but there were 
one or two friends of mine              381
      MC:      WHERE WERE THE DANCES THAT YOU WOULD GO TO?  391
      IW:      Well actually, I'm wrong about the, the - well, at the YMCA they 
used to  call a round game, and once a year there was always a, a dance there, 
down the - which  is now the Early Settlers, there was dance - varsity DANCES 
were held there, there was  also then and really more later on after I was 
married there was the dances in the Savoy  building, the Tudor Room, actually 
very popular on a Thursday night and then, and then a  more formal one on the 
Saturday night. Later on, oh wait a minute now, I can tell you  this, I can 
perhaps give the date better for this, about 19 - about 1955, there was a  
square-dancing came to Dunedin and one or two square-dancing clubs and a lot of 
people  enjoyed going to those evenings. I think that petered out after a few 
years.                393
      *MC:      SO YOU WENT ON GOING OUT TO THE DANCES AFTER YOU GOT MARRIED?
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+++ Searching document int.Wilson, Helen...
      HW:      And, eh ... oh, they had DANCES at St. Clair, dances on the 
Esplanade        841
      MC:      THESE DANCES AT ST. CLAIR, WHO RAN THEM?     863
      MC:      OK. DID YOU GO TO DANCES IN OTHER PARTS OF TOWN?
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      HW:      Think they did have quite a few lodge DANCES.
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