JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27405, 19 July 1954, Page 7

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

h. Si £ —1 agTee . with “Granddad,” but zirls hen he says that f ew giris in this town are inclined towards delinquency. If he worked in a factory where there are a lot of diS?rin I ? en n and bo ? s he would know different. Pass sentence on the girls P udUsh thair names; then you may get somewhere. If the boy has £ t a c s , the girL One law July 15, 1954. FATHER.

On 016 Question of sexual delinquency among juveniles, the general tone of criticism seems to imat a c J e s n_u P„ required only in the importation of the cheap, trashy productions from Australia and America. But have not the publishers of much of this material the justification that it is a reprint of work • J as alread y passed the censor ? orm of “serious” literature by established writers? The Government has, as one North Island speaker has said, a committee of experts to advise it on this question; but it advises only where there has been a complaint to the police. Censorship is in the hands of customs officials and is either downright incompetent or works oq the assumption that anything treated realistically must be broadening if some literary critic has commended it. Until the’appearance of these reprints it would also- be a comfortable working assumption that it was all rather high-brow and out of range.—Yours, etc., , , LIBERAL. July 18, 1954.