MORAL LEPERS.
.The Auckland Star says that never was the want of a female reformatory more felt in Auckland than at the present time. The police are said to have in their possession just now a list containing the names of 136 women who make a living by prostitution, and among them are not a few of the far more dangerous class who make a business of luring young girls from the paths of rectitude. The police made a raid on two or three houses of ill-fame last night, and arrested no fewer than eight of those disgusting and degraded harpies, some of them complete monuments of filth and disease. The scenes in a certain hotel in the very heart of the city are such that the most callous observer will sometimes stand and marvel that human nature should descend to so low a pitch of depravity and wretchedness. It is high time that firm steps Were taken to purify the moral atmosphere of Auckland,
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Patea Mail, 15 April 1882, Page 3
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165MORAL LEPERS. Patea Mail, 15 April 1882, Page 3
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