Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents

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f children and adolescents in New Zealand, and the extent to which such conditions and influences are operative, a

e submissions. There were placed before the Committee files of letters which had been written to Ministers of the Crown, and hundreds of newspaper

gust. It sat in Christchurch for the convenience of people in the South Island

n submissions were made by interested organizations and private persons, and a large volume of relevant correspondence, addressed direct to the Committee, was cons

e it. All officers of the Crown, and all public agencies from whom information was sought, were helpful. Much of the evidence, ho

by the heads of their respective schools. Similarly, there was much secondary evidence of indecent behaviour and of other facts said to have been derived from reliable sources. The absence of direct evidence on some of these matters, h