PUBLIC MORALS IN CHRISTCHURCH.
(BY TELEGRAPH— I>i,ESS ASSOCIATION.)
Curistchurch, this day. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Mr Beotham, R.M., in sentencing a woman of ill-fame, said he was sorry to see that since the operation of the Contagious &ct had ceased in Christchurch there had been a considerable increase in public solicitation cf prostitution, whicti was not confined, as formerly, to well !;nown prostitutes, but now includod young <;irls and married women. He considered that tho Booner the Act was brought into forco again the better it would be for evorybody.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 118, 27 May 1885, Page 4
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