GIRL’S DEPRAVITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1213, 26 February 1914, Page 3

GIRL’S DEPRAVITY.

A SHOCKING CASK. Dunedin, Feb. 25. A remarkable case came before the Juvenile Court to-day when a girl aged 15 years and 10 months was brought up under the Industrial Schools Act. Sub-Inspector Fouby said that the mother of the girl was a laundress and her father was away. The mother had absolutely no control over her daughter. For the past three months the girl had been staying out at night, having been out as late as 2 o’clock in the morning. She had occasionally been brought home in a motor car, and, on three occasions, she had arrived home in a state of intoxication. She was also given to cigarette smoking. Recently she had been employed in a restaurant and in an hotel, but, owing to her bad habits, she had lost these situations. She had been arrested in a room which she had rented. The Magistrate (Mr H. Y. Widdowson) [said that the letting of rooms to young had come

under his notice on several occasions. It was a perfect curse to young girls, who could stay out until all hours, and he did not know what could be done to stop it. The only thing for persons letting these rooms was to see that applicants were genuine in their desire to rent the rooms. The mother stated that her daughter sometimes never came home at all at night, and she never came home earlier than 11 and r 2 o’clock. She also took drink. The last time that she came home—a week ago-i-she was the worse of drink. Witness could do nothing with her. The girl was committed to Te Orangi Home, Christchurch, to be brought up in the Church of England faith.