AUCKLAND AT NIGHT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24944, 17 June 1942, Page 4

AUCKLAND AT NIGHT

"APPALLING IMMORALITY"

(Special) AUCKLAND, June 16. The opinion that women police in uniform were needed in Auckland was expressed by the Mayor, Mr J. A. C. Allum, when referring to a recent Melbourne cablegram stating that the Lord Mayor of that city had suggested a curfew to deal with the behaviour of women and girls. Mr Allum said he hoped something would be done in Auckland, but he did not think a curfew should be instituted. A Salvation Army officer exprested the view that some action was desirable, although she doubted whether a blanket curfew should be instituted. The position in Auckland was bad and was likely to be worse. Although it was true that the city had not experienced the tragic happenings which had taken place in Melbourne, the immorality among a certain section of Auckland's young women was appalling. If women police were the solution it would be necessary that they should be exnerienced in welfare work. The city missioner. the Rev. Jasper Calder, maintained that the position was not serious and certainly did not warrant such an encroachment on liberty as a curfew would represent.