MAORI HOUSING
CONGESTION LEADS TO CRIME PROTECTION OF YOUNG GIRLS (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 10. That the Maori councils and other authorities should take steps to see that girls and young men are not allowed to share the same rooms was an opinion expressed by Mr Justice Fair, in the Supreme Court to-day, when George Moses, a young Whakatane Maori, was before him for sentence for unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl of 12 years. In several cases similar to the one before the court, said the judge, there had been evidence of young people of different sexes sharing the some room. In such cases the parents of the girls were gravely to blame for allowing such conditions to continue. " The Maori Councils and other authorities should take steps to ensure that such things do not take place. Parents must recognise the danger of allowing young girls to be exposed to such a risk. All those circumstances don't excuse the young man, who is a good deal older than the girl. The object of the law is to protect the morals and future happiness of these young girls." The accused was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22956, 11 August 1936, Page 15
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