STREET WALKING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 13927, 4 August 1905, Page 6

STREET WALKING.

Per Press Association.

Sir,— lt is the expressed wisli of several of your subscribers in this dis- . trict, wilh. whom L have conversed on. the subject, to thank "Scrutator" for his letter in last week's , issue of tJic Budget, in which he deals with i/ho matter of street walking-, now, alas, so usual a r.>ode of passirig ' the evenings for young people of . both . sexes. Tho custom has quito ; passed the limit of common sense and; decency even in our little 'Bush towns, ' and it is of th«.« ulrmM importance to i the future well-being o f their children j that pai'unts should realise how they j fail in their duty, when they allow their children - fcuch highly prejudicial liberty at night. Tf our clergy, following- the example of the liev.. F. G. Evan.% will preach i down this ovil custom from tho pulpit, and if you and your brother editors will use your mighty pens to point out in black and white all tho shameful neglect parents arc guilty of whose hearths and homos are so imattrac 1 " tive (that even schoolgirls seem to prefer the streets), a better , order .of things may in time prevail, and "Scrutator's/* letter will not have been written in vain. — J am, etc., W. ERVINE CHINN. Inglewood, Aug. 2, 1903. (If our correspondent has read his paper carefully he will have noticed chat on several occasions wo have written on th« subject of lack of control on the part of parents of- their children. We have blamed- the' lriot-li-ors. and have move than once got into hot wain 1 f-.,: 1 J(v:tr;-,so. — Ed. r.H.) '