PROTECTION OF GIRLS.
CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 30, C p.m. London, April 20. In the House of Lords, the Bishop of Loudon, speaking on the second reading of the Criminal Law Amendment to raise the age of consent from sixteen to eighteen and otherwise increase the protection of girls, declared that many gills between sixteen <ind eighteen were on the London streets. A girl's property was protected until she was twen-ty-one, then it was surely .right tliat her virtue should be protected until she was eighteen. The present condition of the criminal law, lie said, was unworthy of a Christian state. The Lord Chancellor feared that raising the age would tend to produce blackmail, which was increasing in London. The Government, howevev, was not opposed to the Bill, whose rending was carried.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 282, 1 May 1914, Page 5
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137PROTECTION OF GIRLS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 282, 1 May 1914, Page 5
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