PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
[BT TILEGBAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, This Day. At the annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children the annual report ' stated that the number of cases dealt with was 114 as compared with 90 last year and 107 in the preceding year. The cases include 16 of ill-usage and cruel neglect of children, 11 of runaway husbands, 19 of drunken husbands, one drunken wife, and one drunken mother, and some cases of affiliation (settled mostly out of court), whilst the remainder wero divided amongst cases of tho unmanageable daughters, petty thefts by girls, complaints re neglect to pay for maintenance of children. Among the cases of urgerit distress the saddest ,were cases of young girls — mothers under sixteen for whom no adequate redress could 'be obtained owing to tho limitation of time allowed by Act under which proceedings could be taken. The following resolution was carried : "That it is highly desirable and necessary that female factory inspectors be reappointed and that a deputation interview tho Minister of Labour on the matter."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 121, 22 May 1908, Page 2
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180PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 121, 22 May 1908, Page 2
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