"GROWING IMMORALITY"
TENDENCY OF THE DAY?
GREAT ALARM EXPRESSED. BUSINESS MEN'S RESOLUTION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CARTERTON, this day. The Featherston Chamber of Commerce passed the following resolution at its last meeting:— "That this Chamber views with the greatest concern the growing immorality of the present day, and calls on all proprietors and custodians of halls to exercise the greatest care to ensure the safety of young girls."
A number of members spoke strongly in expressing very great alarm at the present-day trend of events. Short skirts, drinking at dances, motor cars, and lack of parental control were amongst the | things cited as causes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1928, Page 10
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