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Title: Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee

Author: Ronald Macmillan Algie

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Language: English

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1955
NEW ZEALAND

REPORT

OF

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY COMMITTEE

(Hon. R. M. Algie, Chairman)

_Laid on the Table of the House of Representatives_

BY AUTHORITY:
R. E. OWEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.--1955

REPORT

By a resolution of the House dated the 28th day of September 1954 a
Special Select Committee was appointed to consider and to report upon
certain matters relating to moral delinquency. In particular, the
Committee was instructed to study the recommendations contained in the
report of the Mazengarb Committee and to make such observations thereon
as it thought fit. This Special Select Committee was empowered to sit
during recess and was directed to report its findings to the House
within twenty-eight days after the commencement of the next ensuing
session of Parliament.

The Orders of Reference relating to the Committee were as follows:

ORDERS OF REFERENCE

_Extracts from the Journals of the House of Representatives_

TUESDAY, THE 28TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1954

_Ordered_, "That a Select Committee be appointed, consisting of ten
Members, to consider the Report of the Special Committee on Moral
Delinquency in Children and Adolescents (H-47, 1954); the Committee
to make such recommendations or observations as it thinks fit to
the House or the Government; the Committee to have power to sit
during the recess and for twenty-eight days after the commencement
of the next ensuing session; the Committee to consist of six
Members to be nominated by the Prime Minister and four Member