The above association, of which I am president, desires me to express to you the satisfaction with which they have heard that you have said that "the Legislative Council of New Zealand had last year refused to raise the age of consent" (at which a girl may agree to her own ruin), "but that next session this would be insisted on, as would, also, the removal of a shameful and objectionable statute."

Some of us are old workers in seeking to promote the universal abolition of the State regulation of vice, and we are all profoundly convinced that what is morally wrong can never be physically right, a conviction which is only confirmed by the experience of all those who have inquired into page 11 this matter with unprejudiced minds. We trust that the coming session of the Legislature will witness the repeal of the Act and the passing of the other measure designed for the protection of young girls. On behalf of my committee,