A CONCUPISCENT CARTER.

NZ Truth, Issue 110, 27 July 1907, Page 4

A CONCUPISCENT CARTER.

WMT HE WANTED AND WHAT HE GOT. The Uses of tlie Registry Office. It is doubtful if existing legislation is capable of dealing with the injustice and rascality that is prac-^ Used under the aegis of the registry' office, and probably no satisfactory method of -. supervision, will be devised until the Government takes over the entire control of registry offices, and runs them for the State v/ith the aid of departmental officers. Cases of duplicity and hardship pour into "Truth" office about the methods of registry offices, and we furnish below one of the many examples. About a month back an unfortunate married woman, who has to earn Iver own living, went to Mrs Pitt's office, No. 1 Manners-street, Wellington, and .pairl a fee of 7s 6d for a job of housekeeper to a man at Masterton. She says it was rei presented to her that the Masterton • employer was a person of respectability, but she has since learned that he is an i.nsobcr individual and LOOSE IN THE MATTER OF MORALS. A woman lived with him for some years as his wife, but when she died, it was 'discovered that he had failed to make an honest mate of Iter. He is a carrier, and some ; time ago his horse lacked thc j bucket, and a number of benevolent people subscribed the cost of another j animal ior him. Why they should i have done so, heaven only knows. I The Wellington -woman went up to ; Masterton, and had only been there ia couple of days' -when the treacherI ous carrier made improper proposals ito her. She rejected his advances, I but ho persisted, and the woman i Was obliged lo id aye the house to ;tjj.'o!ect herself from -his amorous ali- tacks. She was short of money, itoo, and demanded payment for her ! ser vices during the few days she I had be-?n on the premises. This he I refused, alleging that he had paid ■ 3 2s Gel to the registry office keeper 'to secure a housekeeper, one of tbe | conditions of whose cmnlovment was jth-it she should Jive with him. as his i wife. The victimised woman saw ! Police Serjeant Miller about her matter, and he could only advise her to ?u - ocecd against the immoral expressman m a civil action to recover her cash, and she returned to Wellington. We commend .this case to the authorities for ihe fullest .investigation., We do not vouch for truth of the carrier's statement that his arrangement with Mrs j Fit^'s -office was for a woman of leisy virtue, hut we do. soy that the ic.irrier told ihe woman that there iwas such an arrangement. What jwo w;<nt to , know is. cannot the | police find sorre law to cover tno ji.*n*u*oper nrnnosals made to this wo - imnn, evrn if it merely comes under j the heading of indecency.