Sob-stuff

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 8

Sob-stuff

-I P it IF ever: a plaoe merited the || || l ' name of "The City of Name || H Suppression," that locality is II II Dunedin. There, the "sob-stuff" || II goes down.' || || The other- week both magis- || || ( trates made the name-suppress- || %l ing business a regular welter. || ll Admittedly, there are cases || 1| where the interests of justice || || and society are better served by || II discriminate suppression of i| |§ names. || || Also, each case has to be || is treated on its merits, but the || || Dunedin magistrates, m parti- || || cular, should not allow their || ll over-riding love of social re- \\ 11 gularity and order to warp their \\ II idea that publicity is the great- || |i est barrier against crime that || l\ ever has been or ever will be || |l erected and that sheer acts of H II studied larrikinism by youths jjl II of nineteen who hang perilous- || fi ly close to the border of crime, || I] do not merit name suppression. 11 |i One youth the other week — I| ll spoken of as a larrikin by the \\ II police — quietly asked that his || |i name be suppressed — and sue-' || i| ceeded. He went away smiling, ii II Ii