UNESCORTED GIRLS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 20 May 1930, Page 11

UNESCORTED GIRLS

PERILS IN THEIR PATH

JUVENILES AND DANCES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Dny

"I desire to say that it is a grave as-well as-a sad circumstance that a girl^ of 15 years should be allowed by her parents or guardians to go unescorted to a public dance," said his Honour Mr.- Justice Smith to-day when sentencing a young man to seven years' hard labour- for rapo at Hamilton.

"This'case illustrates the evil of such conduct in a tragic way. It shows the need" of adoquato homo training and supervision. If that had been available for this girl it is a reasonable inference that she would never have

been in tho company of a person previously unknown to her beside a vacant piece of land at midnight."This case also raises in a ( tragic manner tho question whether tho proprietor of every dance hall, and the organisers of every public dance, should not voluntarily sco that obvious juveniles aro turned' away from public dances unless escorted.. Much public anxiety would be allayed if this were done, and also if the proprietor of every dance hall and the organisers of every public dance would take voluntary but rigorous steps to ejeel) any person under the influence of liquor."