WHITE SLAVERY
NO ORGANISED EFFORT HERE. Police-Commissioner Cullen was waited on yesterday by a Dominion reporter with regard to the alleged existence in New Zealand of an organised • white slave traffic, , inferred from tho speech of Mrs. Field, at tho \V.C.T;U. Conference, at Gisborne. The Commissioner, keeps in close touch with every police district, in New Zealand, stated that ho was sure there Was no organ-, ised white slavery existent at the present time in New Zealand.: That sort of thing could not go on for long in a small country like this' without detection, and ho was quite confident that there was no organised effort to decoy girls into loading a life of ill-fame. There was a case about five, or-six years ago'when a 'Wellington girl was said to have been lured to London by a man who made a business of that sort of thing. That.man had been subsequently arrested as one of three responsible for the importation into Auckland of some French women. These .women used to cloak tkeiiv infamous trade by taking little confectionery or tobacconist shops in various • parts of the city. Finally one of the women got into trouble with tho police, and the whole truth came out. .■-...'
'Originally the girls were lured away from their homes .in France by men who only sought to make- money out of them. - They were persuaded to leave by a promise of beautiful dresses, a trip to other countries, and the prospect of finally making good matches. First they werp taken to some of the Continental cities and afterwards they visited Rio do Janeiro, Sydney, arid 'Auckland, but Were not iii the latter city long' before their business was discovered and they were rooted out. • Other police officials were questioned on the same subject, but one and all gave the opinion that so far. as their knowledge went -there was no' organised white: slave traffic going on in New Zealand. ' , ■ ■ ■ .
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2004, 11 March 1914, Page 7
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349WHITE SLAVERY Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2004, 11 March 1914, Page 7
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