Devon and Cornwall Probation Officers
| DOI | 10.1177/026455053400101805 |
| Published date | 01 January 1934 |
| Date | 01 January 1934 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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DEVON AND CORNWALL
PROBATION OFFICERS
Form Branch of National Association of Probation Officers.
LADY ASTOR Commends
Romance of Probation Work
Lieut.-Commander
Majesty’s Commission of the Peace, not because they
E. Vol. Rogers,
possessed special qualifications for the duties of a
Chairman of the
magistrate, or had any particular interest in the national
local panel of Magistrates for Juvenile Courts, presided
problem of crime, but because they had performed some
at a meeting called by His Worship the Mayor of
particular service for their own political party. The
Plymouth, in the Abbey Hall, Plymouth, on 8th Decem-
selection of magistrates should be taken out of the
ber, for the purpose of forming a Devon and Cornwall
area of politics. It took a trained, a fearless, a human
Branch of the National Association of Probation Officers.
and sympathetic mind to make a good magistrate,
The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Feversham, J.P. (President
and there was a dire need for a much larger number of
of the National Association), and the Viscountess
really public spirited women who could devote time to
Astor, M.P., were the speakers. A large number of
careful study of the work of juvenile courts, to the
magistrates, justices’ clerks and probation officers
Probation and Children Acts, and to the whole problem
attended from both counties.
of juvenile delinquency.
Apologies for absence were received from the Earl of
In her opinion the right sort of women could find
Devon, Lord and Lady Mildmay, the Archdeacon of
nothing more romantic than to have joined a work of
Plymouth, Major Gen. Sir F. C. Poole, J.P., Lt.-Col.
this sort, which had already captured the imagination
Sir Hugh Protheroe Smith (Chief Constable of Corn-
of such able young men as Lord Feversham, and others
wall) and Major L. H. Morris (Chief Constable of Devon).
of whom she knew.
Tea was provided by the courtesy of His V’orship the
In dealing with some aspects of the new Children
Mayor, and during the...
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