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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1922, 3 December 1913, Page 7

The interruption of tho direct passenger service between Australia and Auckland is nol, perhaps, without lis advantages. Tho police report that,' although it is expected that Auckland will lie visited by lm;;e crowds of people diirinji the next, few weeks, very lew foreign crimiuiils have made the. city their headquarters. Oilier cities in which exhibitions have been held have had to cope with an incursion of persons of an undesirable class, pickpockets heinn particularly numerous, mid 'ii Ohristohureh in tile summer of 1!)()!>7 the police a considerable amount of attention to these gentry. Auckland, says Llie "Herald," cannot expeel to "Scape altogether a visit from a section of the community llial- would rather live by crime than by work, and all ihe detectives are maiiitainiup; a careful supervision over new arrivals.