MENTAL DEFECTIVES BILL
PROFESSORS URGE INQUIRY £ Australian Tress Assn. J AUCKLAND, July 26. A joint, plea that the pasagc of the Alental Defectives Bill should be delayed pending a comprehensive scientific inquiry has been telegraphed to the Alinistor of Health by the professors of philosophy and education at tho Auckland and Canterbury Univeis sity Colleges and the Otago University. The telegrams bear the signatures iof Professors W. Anderson, A. B. Fitt | (Auckland), C. F. Salmond and J. I Shelly (Canterbury), and F. W. Dunlop and Lawson (Otago). It is understood that what is desired by tho professors who have sent the request is an investiga' 'on from tho foundations of tho principles embodied in tho Bill in relation to all the issues in volved.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 176, 27 July 1928, Page 7
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