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“MORALISTS” IN BRISBANE. METHODS OF SCARING COUPLES. (Special Australian Correspondent.) BRISBANE, August 18. Members of the “Moralist Society’’ in hoods and capes are now exploding firecrackers to frighten couples m parks and doorways. A meeting of the society described methods being used “to quell the outbreak of vice and sin.”
Some members demonstrated macabre garments used to scare and break up couples. The society is stated to be secret, operating “sometimes outside the law but for the law’s own good.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1942, Page 4
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83OUTSIDE THE LAW Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1942, Page 4
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