Crime And Punishment
Sir, —The Wellington Society for me Protection of Women and Children wishes to express its approval of the Hon. Sir John Reed’s and Mr, J. S. Barton’s letters dated September 11 and 12, also your sub-leader of September 11, concerning the amendment to the Crimes Act. We wish to endorse emphatically all that these expressed. The society considers that the protection of defenceless little children should be the paramount consideration in these cases and strongly protests against the abolition of the deterrent ci’ corporal punishment. This society is peculiarly fitted to express an opinion in this matter owing to the wide practical experience it has gained in dealing with cases of this nature during the past 43 years of social work in this city. We view with alarm the prospect of men of evil propensities being free from the fear of corporal punishment, as a prison sentence with a probable curtailment owing to good behaviour while in prison is totally inadequate in view of the grave and serious nature of these offences. —I am/ etc. —LILLIAS E. O’SHEA, President. Wellington, September 12.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 298, 13 September 1941, Page 11
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