At the meeting of the Te Aro Licensing Committee on Wednesday Inspector Thomson stated that it was very difficult to obtain a conviction for Sunday trading, for by the ruling of the Resident Magistrates »t Christchurch and Wellington the landlord of an hotel \vft3 r,ob held responsible for the act of his servanto in supplying liquor unless they could prove that the landlord had knowledge of the sale of tho liquor. Tho Social Purity Society of Christchurch will ask the Government what steps can be taken to raise the age of girls rescued from a vicious life and sent to reformatories to IS. At present a girl can onlv be committed until she is of the age of 15. The Society suggests that this should bo raised to 18, aud. that the Government give power that such girls committed by any court be handed over to sopa. rate institutions already or hereafter pro_ vided for their reception, so as to isolate o r separate them from contaminating the industrial schools or homos to which'they, are now sent.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 849, 8 June 1888, Page 16
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