IMMORALITY AND. THE POLICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 274, 18 November 1910, Page 6

IMMORALITY AND. THE POLICE.

CTo the Editor.) Sir, —The recent decision of our Stipendary Magistrate that, so long as a known prostitute does not harbouT other women for immoral purposes, she is free to play the harlot with all and sundry, exhibits a state of affairs contrary to. good government and the civic life of the community. If such is the law, then it is quite time the moral community took steps to alter the imbecile legislation that permits a iwanton to jeopardise the business of those residing- within the vicinity of her. To say that any •woman is to be free to ruin the vital manlhbod and womanhood of the nation, providing she maintains an exclusive reserved circle, is monstrous! One might with equal fairness claim that smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid, etc is allowable so long as the infected household do not allow visitors. If ever there was a period in the word's history when the human family needed protection from Ibe horrifying diseases resulting from illicit trepass, this is that period. In the interests of public morality, of the race itself, it is essential that the police should be granted reasonable license to enable them to erase this foul stigma of leprosy from our civic and public life.—l am, etc., BABA FOSTU'S.