CHILDREN'S COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 5

CHILDREN'S COURT.

EXCLUSION OF INSPECTOR. "DEEP INDIGNATION" EXPRESSED. Much adverse comment heard at la»t night's annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children on the refusal of the magistrate presiding over the Children's Court to allow admission to the society's inspector, Mrs. N. M. Molesworth, J.P., who last week was excluded from the Court as a " stranger."

Mr. R. T. Michaels made a strong appeal on behalf of the welfare work of the society, stating that the Child Welfare Act made non-committal provision for tho admission of welfare workers to the Court, the right of refusal remaining in the hands of the magistrate. Mr. G. C. Munns mentioned that Mrs. Molesworth was a justice of the peace, which alone might permit her admittance in any other city. He stated that the inspectors of tho society's other branches in the Dominion were invariably admitted to the Children's Courts. Mr. Munns declared that the matter could not be dropped, and that it should be taken even to Parliament if freceesary. After a general agreement to confer with the society's solicitors, the following resolution, moved by Mr. R. T. Michaels, was approved unanimously: " That this meeting place on record its very deep indignation at the inspector being refused admission to the Children's Cqurt."