CASES OF CRUELTY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 14

CASES OF CRUELTY

PROTECTION SOCIETY WORK

Three well-attended committee meetings of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children have been held this year, when a great deal of business has been transacted. There was a full attendance at the first meeting, Mrs. B. L. Dallard, president, being in the chair. Members expressed appreciation of the grant which had been allocated by the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) towards the funds of the society, and a letter of thanks was sent. In view of the apparent increase of sexual offences, a letter was sent asking, for special police supervision in parks and public places. A number of maintenance defaulters being on the books of the society,; the

hope was expressed that stricter en»| forcement of payments would. b« made. In the unavoidable absence of th« president, the chair was taken by Mrs. Perryman at the second meeting -of the society. A -vote of sympathy was passed with Mrs. Radford on the death, of her father, the Rev. W. Shirer, and it was arranged that the assistant secretary should have her annual leave. The matter of the revision of the rules of the society was held over till the president returned. WANGANELLA STOWAWAY. The secretary reported being approached by the wharf police with a request from the ships' officers of the m.v. Wanganella to inspect the dummy funnel in which the- stowaway was housed during the nights and when the ship was in port. The secretary was able to report that there had been no unduly harsh treatment. It had ■ been pointed out that any ship allowing a. stowaway to leave the ship if fined £ 100. During the month visitt received were 171, visits'paid* were's3* letters received were, 65, letters dispatched were 133.