WHITE SLAVERY IN N.Z.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2006, 13 March 1914, Page 4

WHITE SLAVERY IN N.Z.

. Sir,—While I slia-U lint agree,with t-ho statement of Peiioe-Gomm-issiowjr Cut ten ttwt t-lierii j a "no organised wWto. Slaver}- existent- at the. present time in Keiv Zcinland,' 5 it is not my iiitejitioii to argue that point with him at this juiMtui'e. i'erhaps the necessary epacd lii yeflr cokiiifts could iiot- be. allotted, to mm sliouki I desire it for that purpose. 1 shell be obliged., Jnweyer, if you will yi'aftt nvfe space to refer to- olie of tie Conintiseifluer's i statemente as { leported in t-otir issue of to-day. Ho j soys, inter aiia: j "There was a ease a-bout five or | sis years ago when, a ■ Wellington ■; girl was said to have been lured • to Londaii by $ man who made ftbft*i:ncS3 af iiiiat soft o'f thing. I'liat man had v -been, subsequently ar- . rested as oie of three responsible for the jujport«ttott into 4twklaud ■ of soino, Jtytiiieh womeii." . . J. tate it that tl«. case referred, to :is that in winch two foreigners were coiveewed, although, aa a .iijattef of faetj it is noii-idur yeM-s, shiee the. couvictio.tis 'were recorded agaiftat- them iu London for .Jifooflring a A?e-iiit)gton girl. It untst he the «a;se, Jjecatese osie or these men -retiu'ned to Bfew Zeaiattlj n-ud was mentimied at .tho lieariiig oj" .tJrc Auckland charge. Thij poiiit .I.wisli" to make- is this, tnat it is news' to mo , that he was arrested in connection with the Auckland' Gi'iarge, or that he was, ever attested by the New Zealand police at all. 1 followed tftsj K'jiort ol ! -tlioi ease iu bath the Auclihiivtt aiid WelU-ug,-■|;.pii pipetSj, and, from hiy tecqlleatio.il ttf it, the ,, ' eyi&ilce cosiiadfcta tlto stTitciuwit. ljvarfe. by Pwice-Qommissigfleif Uiiltea. _ Aecardhig to tlie report ui tlie papers, Detcctivo Hammoncl gayqliVidaice on, oatli tjiat this pa/Ttieiiinr man,,, wha reteriied to New Zealand., <lmci been Hogged iii South ...Africa as a pr-pciVret far the WMta Sfav«. ttiirio, thaViH.Engiawi ho had beett'.sojj.tonec4 to iiiiprisphnipht and dejK)rte.di but tlmt altltoush he had aeted>s afj'OGurer'.ift Wellington in X 909 aiid again as <f lirecmtct 'in Ancklairi iiii?lSl2 s 'he iiroJ Oil ench occasion espa|ed'tlio rigour 'of the* Keyvi- Zealand law. >\l I am right undU-tMe- GemiiiiesiOHer ' wrong there wrtiilft iipppaT to be ssontettibg (fefecuvo in the Now Zealand system of figlitihg tiin- White Skive -crates, fhf) quest-iou '#; : Atp the statates at fault, or are c t(jo police?—l anij otc. } Welliugtan, Marcsi.ll, 1912.