MR. McCARTHY'S CHAT AND THE TRIBUNE’S TILT THEREAT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 216, 30 August 1911, Page 6

MR. McCARTHY'S CHAT AND THE TRIBUNE’S TILT THEREAT

(To the Editor.) ~ Sir,—A few months ago I wrote you a letter m which I told vou of lhe gross acts of immorality going on m the public schools of Sew Zealand between the children thereof in and out of school grounds. I gave you eases, and told you privatelv they occurred. I also wrote the h r ’> while inspecting the schools ot New Zealand, had acknowledged that immorality did exist in the public schools all over New Zealand. I ta ;d a Minister of the Crown had wnten to me that the Government were considering the advisability of holding an inquiry into the I state of morals among the public j school children of the country. Eightv per cent, of the children are not told the dangers, as soon as they

are physically capable they practice not the slightest restraint, then later a girl of 14 to 16 may, through pique or spite, ruin socially a lad, while neither of them in the past have exercised any restraint or been told specifically and with authority of the sin and danger ef such acts. In Hastings and Napier I believe that in the last year, at least two hundred souls have been cast back in the face of their Maker before they havethrough their bodies had a chance of seeing the light of dav. -1 am. etc., CIVIS.