OUR STREETS.
TO THE KDTTuJI. Slit, —Ib in) true, as Mr. W. S. Aldis writes, the CD. Act may havo nothing to do with keeping our streets in order, but the suspension of this Act has resulted in flooding our streets with loose women and girls, and that Mr. Aldis can satisfy himself if he really wishes to know tho extent of the evil arising therefrom. He further adds the Act was only intended to inert from "sinful man" the consequences of their evil doings ! But what about sinful women ? Are there none 1 Surely, after the expression of opinion from your correspondent of the "way tho police in his opinion exercise their powers, he would nob entrust them with the authority to clear the streets of oven bad women, which, by the way, it is very doubtful they can do unless these persons are soliciting.—l am, &c., ,^,_ lvr Sijqukntia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9461, 4 September 1889, Page 6
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150OUR STREETS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9461, 4 September 1889, Page 6
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