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Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 11

Read in “Truth" “THE HUNTED” By John A. LEE, D.C.M., Labour M.P. Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Minister of Finance 9 Sensational sequel to “Children of the Poor,” a Dominion best-seller. A book which aroused intense widespread interest and provoked fierce controversy. “The Hunted” is a vivid story of an inmate of a reformatory school, hero of Mr. Lee’s first book, a narrative told with stark candor and realistic grimness. ' ' •* ■ • *r State ward, fugitive from justice, vagabond, respectable citizen, soldier in the Great War and decorated fo r “ Fearless Gallantry,” noted Labor and brilliant author—this is the equipment that enabled John A. Lee to write “ The Hunted,” a new serial which will enthral the people of New Zealand. THE AUTHOR, Mr. John A. Lee, D.C.M., M.P. for Grey Lynn, formerly Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Prime'Minister. Starts in “Truth” Sept. 16 (Extracts from the author’s preface to “The Hunted. ) “I am glad I have been a thief and a fugitive from justice, for being all these I acquired early a unity with the pursued. . . . lam glad I have been hunted. . . . With the police on my track I have gone to earth at sunup and on the road at sundown. ... It would have been more pleasant for a politician to have avoided the portions of this book dealing with sex. . . What is dangerously true of sex in a reformatory is true of sex everywhere . . . and tens of thousands of boys in State institutions are fearful of what, explained, becomes vulgar health. » . I have a“ debt to the tens of thousands. », > ‘ ( ’ , Order Your Copy Now!