Bold Belles of the Baches

NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 1

Bold Belles of the Baches

Sheol Shacks by the Seaside

BLOTS ON THE LIFE OF SOCIETY

Auckland, m common with other large centres of population, has its complicated problems of morality and sociology. Of late several cases m the criminal courts have emphasised the evil influences m the vicious underworld which exists m Auckland's seaside shacks. -

The painful part of the perplexing problem is that several young girls, some under the age of consent, have been inveigled ' m the meshes of the social and moral defiler. Following on a case m which a girl of fifteen years had been living m disgraceful immorality m a . bach at Kohimarama with several young men, came a, charge of breach of probation against a young woman, Lilian Walker. Lilian was admitted to probation on a charge of vagrancy m October last, but Adjutant Gordon said she had, not observed the terms of her. release. She had started well and had managed to keep on the straight track for quite a while till tlie. came, once more under the spell o£ a. former admirer. This proved her downfall, and the probationer went out to Orakei, where she adopted the bach life. The woman hail a young child of about nine months, and the Adjutant said she was very fond of her offspring, and it would be a pity' to part them at this stage. But Lilian must understand that the bach at Orakei was no place for hex-, and she must also be brought to realise that there must be a complete .aeyei'ance of the ties that bound her to her faulty fiance. Magistrate Poynton, m ordering the fair wrongdoer to come up for sentence m twelve months if called upon,

touched oh the vice which was rampant m those shacks' by. the sea. They were the source. of the lowest bestial instincts of degraded morality and he indicated they had been the wreck of many . young lives. •■■■'. ■ Heretofore Lilian had been treated leniently, but again had returned to the scene "of her recent misbehavior. He. warned her that she. was liable to be sent to Mt. Eden for three months if she kept walking along the wicked way, but he hoped she would now exhibit greater gratitude for the care and leniency which had been shown her. He would not send her to prison for the sake of her young- child, buc she must keep away altogefher from Orakei" and the Orakei h'ach influence.

THE man who buys rum to color his nose cannot logically object to his wife buying 1 a lip-stick to tint her lips!