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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1921, Page 10

A sidelight was thrown on morality in Auckland by a remark made at the Auckland Presbytery (says the Auckland Star). Speaking of a visit to a local institution, the Rev. J. Patteson mentioned there were 60 illegitimate children in it. One mother was a girl 134 years of age, and another girl, only 12 _ years, was about to become the mother of a child. While full of praise for the excellent work carried out by the home referred to, the minister expressed the opinion that it behoved all churches to work unitedly fox- the uplifting of the moral tone of the community, in order to prevent such a disgraceful state of affairs continuing in that city;