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and
helpo young girls who have been decoyed away from their homes for the purposes of prostitution to obtain husbands and become respectably vottled in life, findo employment for youths who have hou resoured frame slavery Not the least assistance it renders to Government, is the aid it gives in foiling the deep laid : schemes of crimpo, and in prevcutieg - generally the mumerous abuses connected
with Eenigration.
The
résumé of the
mpanying résumé.
Sub Enclosure
of the
work done by the Society during
the
· post 12 months will clearly show the
amount of good.
the Society is doing.
work which would otherwise have to
be performed by Dovernment itself... Appreciation of this fact and of the good services rendered by
the Society
was
was shown by the Legislative Concil.
voting during it recent Session 1000 as a grant in aid
of $1.
institution.
a sun
· of this.
I comuot conclude this short m
review
of the Society
of
it origin, m
Reuse
and of the assistance rendered by it, without recording my high the hearty, and harmonious manner in which the Committee for 1883 has
Co
-operated with this Department . I
only
may
trict that the same harmony
continue with the present
Committee.
(Signed) I. 4. Stewart Lothart
Acting Registrar General
9th a August, 18824
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