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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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