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Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 3

/ IK bpsmS n rH O 3^ > _.*■> O nTi WkM ms&E ® /f} .V w & 33*pj TO I £Saa* m’Y* tSfti. V X ¥i CJi 7 (V 1 *T7 a Y 4 r, ' A*> m ■s*\ feeVi fft I Wjcnr of DRUNKARDS maintained by the State in New Zealand. iThe estimated cost to taxpayers of maintaining these children between one liquor poll and another is £330,000. Scores of new cases are added each year. THE COST is not important compared with the suffering endured by the children before they; are committed. If those 4,000 children could have been gathered together as they wept in their drink-smitten homes before they were committed to the care of the State; if you could have looked on the terrified faces, the neglected and ill-treated little bodies—would you not have demanded that the Liquor Traffic which caused this should be ended INSTANTLY? But because these little sufferers are scattered in many homes that you know nothing of, you do not realise what iniquity the Liquor Traffic is working on them. Here are Some Cases —- AUCKLAND —Two girls, aged 14 and 15, and boy 11, committed to a home, MasnJ* Irate remarking that their own home was a “ pest house," NAPIER —Ten months’ old baby committed to a home. Probation,Officer staled fatbeV usually drunk, home in filthy condition, baby would die if left there; and there were three other children who would have to be sent to the home. CHRISTCHURCH —A daughter gave evidence that she bad attacked her father with a poker when he was drunk and using her mother roughly. WELLINGTON —Five children removed from home, both parents drinkers. Mother fell in drunken fit, child bom with broken legs. Woman good housekeeper when sober. And so the pitiful tale could be fold in scores of instances. Large numbers of cases never get to Court and get no publicity. Give the Innocent Children a Chance l~Wte~lofTTOl 3?afroi vole for national I Cut this out and keep it by you 25Z Strike out the TOP Lines

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