FORCED TO DEGRADATION.
OWING TO UNEMPLOYMENT. A WOMAN’S STATEMENT. CHALLENGED BY REV. J. CALDER. (By Telegraph—Special to Times.) AUCKLAND, Friday. “ If it can be proved that any girl in Auckland has been forced to live a life of immorality because she is destitute I am prepared to hand £SO over to the New Zealanders’ Association," declared Rev. Jasper Calder, city missioner, recently. Mrs G. Stowe, secretary of the Women’s Unemployment Committee of the New Zealanders’ 'Association, when leading a deputation to Hon. S. G. Smith, said definite knowledge had been obtained of girls being compelled to resort to degradation to avert starvation.
Rev. Jasper Calder, In the mission’s official organ, challenges Mrs Stowe’s statements, characterising them as a horrible slander, based on ignoranoo and inspired by hysteria.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18347, 5 June 1931, Page 7
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