IMMORALITY IN SYDNEY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 57

IMMORALITY IN SYDNEY.

STARTLING ASSERTIONS. SYDNEY, March 24. A deputation representing the Public Morals Association asked the C|hief Secretary to introduce legislation to check street immorality and suppress houses of ill-fame. Startling statements were made as to the growth of immorality and the increase of houses of ill-fame. It was alleged that two thousand fallen women were plying on the streets of the city, and many young girls were in houses of ill-fame. The deputation asked that owners should be made responsible for the character of houses. The Hon J. A. Hogue, in replying, promised that Cabinet would give the matter consideration. The subject, he said, was a most difficult one to deal with, and the evil if dealt with might perhaps reappear in a worse form.