Plain Speaking

Hastings Standard, Volume XIV, Issue 4501, 2 July 1910, Page 5

Plain Speaking

DEGENERATE MANHOOD PER PRESS ASSOCIATION Dunedin. July r At a meeting af the Prison and Industrial Schools Reform Society to-day, the President (Canon Curzon-* Siggers) indulged in some plain speaking relative to sexual impurity. He pointed out that in New South Wales anyone found suffering from the result of indiscretion was tobe detained until a cure was effected, and further more drastic legislation was sought for. He said that in America, out of 770,000 arriving at the age of puberty, 55,000 became bad and vitiated; and 20,000 children died annually in France from sexual Impurity of parents. He had the authority of two doctors for saying that the state of young manhood in New Z-aland was such that the race must become childless, Some advocated the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Act, and he supposed the Government must choose between that and the system prooosed in New South Wales.