TUB CRIME OF AUCKLAND.
WHAT ACCOUNTS TOU IT? (By Telegraph-Preen Association.) Auckland, November 'JO. In Iho course of his charge I/.) the Grand Jury at. tho opening of the criminal sessions of the Auckland Supreme Court thin morning, .Mr. .lustico Chupnian remarktd that lie found, from time to time, a cxiusidcnilde accumulation of crime at Auckland. "It i.i dillicult to sxx> what the reason is." lie said. "Why, for instance, should the trial of criminal cases here occupy sMnethin;; like four weeks as .1 rule, where,'i-, further south, the cases occupy a week or a week and a half, or even less Hum that I' I suppose it is due partly to circumstances— to _ what might be called anthropological circumstances—that the criminal classes may bo tender-skinned, and resort tu a line climate." His Honour went 011 to say: There may he other causes connected with tho population and the far-bacl: history of_ the locality, but it is certain there is a greater amount of crimo in Auckland than in other districts in New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1291, 21 November 1911, Page 4
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174TUB CRIME OF AUCKLAND. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1291, 21 November 1911, Page 4
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