BOYS IN HOTELS
BAD FOR THE FUTURE
SELLING OF PERIODICALS
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day.
"At a time when the Government ts making a bold bid to drive drunken drivers off the road there may be growing up a generation that will take their place through a social evil that is.openly tolerated—allowing, lads of tender years to frequent hotels selling magazines and newspapers in places where) often the scum of the community congregates." This comment by a visitor from Australia, where frequenting of hotels by boys is rigorously forbidden, was strongly' supported by representatives'of social organisations when his remarks were referred to them, and all expressed incredulity that public opinion should not have forced the Government" to enact legislation suppressing this form of salesmanship, the law in relation to minors being considered to be opposed to sane reasoning and hopelessly out of date, in that, hotels when the law was framed (1908) ! were open at night
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 95, 19 October 1937, Page 8
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161BOYS IN HOTELS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 95, 19 October 1937, Page 8
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