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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 279, 26 April 1898, Page 4

While in New Zealand legislation for the protection of juveniles has so far met with ridicule from the majority, the movement iri America in favour of children under fifteen having to be at home by eight o'clock in winter and nisc in summer is steadily growing, more than 300 cities and towns having already' adopted the Curfew Ordinance, as it is called, the last being Indianapolis, whose City Council recently voted in favour of it by twelve to seven. The movement originated iu 18U4, when the Boys' and Girls' National Home and Employment Association, organised to study the matter of hoorllumism and crime among boys, resolved that the revival of the curfew was the only practical way tor an improvement to be attempted. So far, experience has been very satisfactory. It is to be hoped that the consignment referred to by the Melbourne Argus in the following paragraph will not be " placed " in New Zealand : The 950 cases of finned salmon condemned as unfit for human food by the Board of Public Health are to leave Victoria, though what their destination is has not been allowed to transpire. The money—some £so—bid for it at the customs sale has been paid to the auctioueer, the purchaser expressing his intention of ' placing it ' elsewhere, where, it may be assumed, people are not worried by the exactions of a board of health. The original value of the cons'gnment may be estimated from the fact that the duty required by the Customs Department, if it had been sold for consumption here, was £3BU, being at the rate of 2d a lb."

pHIEF "IJRAND CLOTHING cannot \J be produced fast enough for the demaud.