CABLE NEWS [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- COPYRIGHT.] AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. PROTECTION OF GIRLS [PBE3S ASSOOIATIOH.I (Received August 21, 9.4 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Girls' Protection Bill has passed the State Legislative Council. A strong effort was made to reduce the age of consent below seventeen, but it was defeated. A clause was inserted providing for punishment up to five years' penal servitude for employing, harbouring, or receiving into a disorderly house girls between the ages of twelve and seventeen.' (Received August 21, 9.14 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. In the State Assembly a committee ■was appointed to enquire into the effects of using preservatives in the ' colony's foods.
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Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1903, Page 5
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110CABLE NEWS [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.- COPYRIGHT.] AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Evening Post, Volume LXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1903, Page 5
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