W.C.T.U.
GIRLS AND BOYS OUT AT
NIGHT.
THE GOVERNMENT 3ALLED UPON TO INTERVENE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. INVERCARGILL, February 16. At the Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention to day, attention waa called to the grave danger incurred by young girls and boys promenading the streets at night. A resolution was carried calling upon the Government to introduce legisaltion dealing with this, and, also, calling attention to the discrepancy between the punishment meted out to sly grog hellers in licensed and no-license districts, the maximum penalty in the former being twelve months with hard labour, and in a no-license district three months without hard labour. Invitations for the Convention for 1911 were received from Dunedin, Kaiapoi, Greymouth, and New Plymouth, that of the latter being accepted, 'lhe convention has now closed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 973, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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129W.C.T.U. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 973, 17 February 1910, Page 5
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