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EVIL MEN AND CHILDREN PROTECTION SOCIETY ALARMED AT ABOLITION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 13. The Wellington Society for the Protection of Women and Children views with concern the amendment to the Crimes Act. In a statement, Mrs John O’Shea, the president, said the society considered that the protection of defenceless little children should be the paramount consideration in these cases, and the society strongly protests against the abolition of the deterrent of corporal punishment.
“This society is peculiarly fitted to express an opinion in this matter owing to the wide practical experience it has gained in dealing with cases of this nature during the past 43 years of social work in this city. Wo view with alarm the prospect of men of such evil propensities being free from the fear of corporal punishment, as a prison sentence with probable curtailment owing to good behaviour while in prison is totally inadequate in view of the grave and serious nature of these offences,” she said.
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Evening Star, Issue 23989, 13 September 1941, Page 8
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164FLOGGING DETERRENT Evening Star, Issue 23989, 13 September 1941, Page 8
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