THE UGLY SOCIAL SORE.

Evening Star, Issue 10015, 26 May 1896, Page 3

THE UGLY SOCIAL SORE.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—The few women, with our City missionaries, who knew of the existence of this evil have been trying for prevent it. We have petitioned, agitated, and worked for the abolition of the C.D. Act and for the raising of the age of protection, and so far have not been successful. Again and again our workers have gone home sick and discouraged, and could not sleep or rest because of this evil and their inability to stop it. Now, sir, I would like to know if the men who crowded the court and heard so much are going to take action in the matter. If something is not done, why allow such filthy cases to be heard with open doors ? Surely the men know now that it is not a shrieking sisterhood or band of fanatics that have long been trying to stamp out this awful evil. Women all agree that it is a mistake to allow these depraved children to be at large. They contaminate all whom they come in contact with, and it would be a dire calamity to put them in our Industrial School. As we have no reformatory, then let them be committed to some place where their evil influence would be checked. I have been all over the Mount Magdala Home, and know of no more suitable place for these unclean children.—l am, etc.,

A Woman

Dunedin, May 26. [Our correspondent is in error. Both eases were heard with closed doors. —PGd. E.S]