STERILISATION
JUSTICES' RESOLUTION
HON. CARRINGTON'S PROTEST
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ';.;■', : AUCKLAND, This Day. As a protest against the passing at the Justices of the- Peace conference of a resolution favouring sterilisation of the- eugenically unfit, th& Hon.' C. J. Carrington, though, retaining his Jus-, tice's- commission, has resigned from the Auckland branchof the associations ■ '"The legislative results of a hysterical eugenic' agitation," he states in a letter to'the registrar, "will be tyranny and the disregard of personal liberty by means of this arbitrary State, inquisition without which the enactment would be'unworkable." : ' Mr. Carrington states that the classification of the unfit is a very wide one. "The object of the association," he adds, "is repugnant to the Christian foundation of our country's laws and the traditions of justice. It, is tantamount to changing from the worship of God to the- worship of man." J
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 11
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142STERILISATION Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 11
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