PEACE AND VIRTUE
The impression that Tasmanians arc an unusually law-abiding peoplo is strengthened by observation of too scant importance householders attach to locking up their homes when fey 8 out for a clay, or even for a week. In© fear of thieves seldom enters their heads, especially in the country towns. Even in Hobart and Launceston theft from houses is much less common than in Melbourne and Sydney (states a Hobart correspondent). This is not an invitation to mainland criminals Indeed, the Tasmanian police are very keen to preserve Tasmania s reputation as a land of virtue, and their close liaison with mainland police ensures that undesirables who land there are carefully watched. One of the charms of Tasmania is its community life. It is an ideal place in which to prmg up children, though it must ha admitted that the number of opportunities of obtaining suitable employment for them when tbeir education has been completed is smaller than on the mainland. Hence the continued _ drift of young people across Bass Strait to seek fortune.
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Evening Star, Issue 23527, 16 March 1940, Page 3
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176PEACE AND VIRTUE Evening Star, Issue 23527, 16 March 1940, Page 3
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