PROFESSORS ASK DELAY FOR DEFECTIVES’ BILL
Per Press AUCKLAND, Last Night. A joint plea that th£ passage of; the Mental Defectives’ Bill should be do-, layed pending a comprehensive scientific inquiry was telegraphed to the Minister of Health tp-night by the Professors of Philosophy and pf Education at Auckland and Canterbury University Colleges and Otago University^ : The telegrams bear- tho signatures, of Professors .W. Anderson * and-A. B. Pitt (Auckland), C. -F. Salmond and J, -Shelley (Canterbury),, and F. W. Dunlop and Lawson (Otago). It is understood that what is desired by the professors who have sent the request is an investigation from the foundations of the principles embodied in the Bill in relation to all the issues involved.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6671, 26 July 1928, Page 10
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118PROFESSORS ASK DELAY FOR DEFECTIVES’ BILL Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6671, 26 July 1928, Page 10
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