CHILDREN'S COURTS
SURPRISES PROMISED MINISTER’S QUESTIONNAIRE (Special to the Herald.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “I propose shortly to make a pronouncement which I consider very important regarding the position.of the Child Welfare Act in its working with relation to the courts of the country,” stated the Hon. T. M. Wilford last, evening. “Since the questionnaire has been published in the newspapers I- have received the four replies for which I was waiting. All the replies are now in, and I think some of the conclusions of the magistrates will be at least a surprise to many of the public.”
Mr. Wilford’s questionnaire asked all magistrates whether they deemed it advisable to exclude the press from Children’s Courts, whether names should be suppressed irrespective of the nature of the offence, ■whether the room in which the cases were heard should be shorn of all semblance of a court ; and whether it was advisable that young persons over the age of 14 years, who were charged with serious offences, should be dealt with in the Children’s Court.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 5
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