KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE PUBLIC

Southland Times, Issue 23141, 6 March 1937, Page 19

KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE PUBLIC

YOUNG GIRL’S SEXUAL PRECOCITY (United Press Association) WESTPORT, March 4. The desirability of responsible citizens having some knowledge of the facts of a case involving sexual precocity on the part of a young girl, in order to prevent the increase of any tendency in this direction, was stressed by his Honour, Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court today whin directing the grand jury in charges against two young men involving offences against two young girls. He declined the request from the parents and guardians of the girls concerned to clear the public from the Court, stating that, in his opinion, the public should know all about these transactions. These matters should be brought into the open and dealt with.

Mr Leo Sim, the leader of the Communist Party, who will speak in Everybody’s hall on Sunday night, has recently returned from a twelve months’ tour abroad. Mr Sim will deal with the allegations made by the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, about Communist propaganda in Public Works camps, and also the efforts of the Communist Party towards affiliation with the Labour Party. Mr Sim is an accountant by profession and a returned soldier, having served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as a commissioned officer.