CHILD WELFARE ACT
QUESTIONNAIRE TO MAGISTRATES (.Special to the ‘ Stab.’] CHRISTCHURCH, March 23. “ I. propose to make shortly a pronouncement which I consider very important regarding the position of the Child Welfare Act in its working with relation to the courts of the country,” stated the Hon. T. M. Wilford last evening. “ Since the questionnaire has been published in the newspapers, 1 have received four replies for which I was waiting. All tho replies are now in, and I think some of the conclusions of the magistrates will be at least a surprise to many of the public.” Mr Wilford’s questionnaire asked all magistrates whether they deemed it advisable to exclude the Press from chil-. dren’s courts, whether names should be suppressed irrespective of the nature of the offence, whether the room in which the cases were heard should be shorn of all semblance of a court, and whether it was advisable that young persons over the age of fourteen who were charged with serious offences should be dealt with in a children’s court.
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Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 9
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174CHILD WELFARE ACT Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 9
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