CHILDREN’S COURT.
DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. JUDICIAL TRIBUNES NOT SUITABLE By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Sept. 16Replying to a deputation from the women’s branch of the New Zealand Labour Party, the Minister for Justice said legislation was being drafted providing for children’s courts, and the general protection of the interests of juveniles who commit offences. Mr. Parr said the ordinary judicial tribunes were not at all suited to deal with children’s offences. He hqped to be able to introduce a. Bill this session. The children’s court would be presided over by specially appointed magistrates and he held at juvenile homes or receiving homes. There would be no publication of the proceedings. The policy of the Justice Department nowadays is a policy of mercy rather than probation. He proposed to appoint child welfare officers in connection with the juvenile courts, some of them women.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 6
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141CHILDREN’S COURT. Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 6
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