MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association 1 PBOBLEAI OF CBIAIE. NEW YORK. -March 7. Professor Raymond Aloley. of Columbia University, a noted sociologist, addressing the Cierfy Club, said: “The gencval condition of incompetent police work, inexperienced prosecutions pitted ‘against legal veterans defending criminals, public parsimony towards expenditure for an efficient penal system. sinister politics, publicity-seeking judges, and the yellow press are the major causes of crime in the United States. No American familiar with the police records can be proud of them. Wo have a sordid, impossible situation.

The obscenity of the press, and the insidious trial of cases in the newspapers, done with the bias ol trying to nnild up eircilAition. are causes ol the defeat of the criminal courts.” P.O. FINANCES. AIELBOUHNE. Alarcli S. In the House of -Representatives, an official report tabled showed the Postal Department's earnings for the year ended 30th. June were £10.803.000. an increase of £728.000 over the previous year, but showing a loss on working of £285,000, chiefly as a result of the increased basic wage and superannuation liability. The telegraphic branch made a lass of £309,000 and the postal branch had a gain of £76.000, while the telephone earnings increased by £472.000.