POPULAR VICES
AN APPEAL TO WOMEN.
CHRISTCHURCH, 24th May.
In the course of an address at the Church Congress on "Christian Citizenship," Bishop Averill, of Auckland, said:—
"Women of New Zealand, pioneers of the civil franchise of women, your voices, your influence, your services are sorely needed to arouse your -country to the danger of its diminishing, birth rate. The safety of these far-off Dominions of the Southern Seas depends upon filling the empty places, or nothing will cave them from the enviius eyes of more prolific nations. It rests with you to a large extent to insist that the valuable report on the Kovalence of immorality and of venereal iisease should be given effect to. "It is for you to insist that no legalisation of vice shall disfigure our Statute Book. It is for you to protest far more vigorously than in the past against the, degradation of your sex in particular by our Tin-Christian and ever-widen-ing- divorce laws. It is for you to raise the estimate of true manliness and insist than a man's character is of infinitely greater value than.his possessions. It is for you to continue to agitate to raise the age of consent when a girl can legally fling away her moral character and so save your erring sisters from themselves. It is for you to set your faces against fashionable and popular vice, and to be \repared for sacrifice and unpopularity."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 5
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237POPULAR VICES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 5
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