Among many interesting things said by the Eov. E. A. Axelsen at the social gathering of the Overseas Club last evening, was that Dunedin had the honor of starting the juvenile court system for New Zealand, the object of which was to take charge of young people who wore going astray and help them. But with his twenty years’ experience he coaid say definitely that there were very few of the really criminal class in the Dominion, and statistics showed that the_ proportion of juvenile offenders who again came before the courts was really infinitesimal. Taken as a whole, the young people of New Zealand were of the very highest class. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for coughs and colds never fails.—{.Advt.i
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Evening Star, Issue 17701, 30 June 1921, Page 8
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121Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 17701, 30 June 1921, Page 8
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