PROTECTION OF GIRLS.
QUESTION SFOR CANDIDATES
CHRISTCHURCH, An-. 30
•‘Will you support an amendment, to the Crimes Act providing for raising the age of consent to eighteen years, extension of the time to twelve months during which an information may he laid of criminal assaulo, and deletion of the clause allowing ‘reasonable cause to believe that the girl was of an age to consent’ as a sufficient defence to a charge under clause 21G ol the Act;- 1 ” These questions the National Council of Women decided to-day should be put to candidates at the general election. The council also decided to ask candidates whether they would support the recommendation of women’s societies that the law he amended to allow for the appointment of women jurors.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2475, 2 September 1922, Page 4
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125PROTECTION OF GIRLS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2475, 2 September 1922, Page 4
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