THE MOTOR-CAR AND CRIME.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1930, Page 3

THE MOTOR-CAR AND CRIME.

“It/ cannot be doubted,” says the report of the British Home Office, just issued, “that crimes against, property \yith violence have increased most in the country districts'; putside the great towns, and that the increase' in' this class- of. crime is therefore due. .to...the incoming of the motor age. The ox’ola iSrHoirs-ra i-e -riot" -far-ifo—seefcrr The motor-car enables the criminallyminded in the- great towns to travel faster and further afield into regions where they are not- known, and the chances of interference with their criminal activites before they return, or of subsequent arrest, are less. The motr car also enables most people to live in the country, either all the year round, or during week-ends. Whether they live in isolated big houses, which offer rich spoil) or in, smaller homes, which yield -olleeftvejy goocj. hauls, or in ; scattered bungalows,’'huts, and so on; a dozen of which can be broken into in an; l/<jur or' twd'while unoccupied, their 1 new dwelling places in the country fofnpt'the criminal and strain the resources of'’'the police.” 'in i YaDUE OF “DOLES.” ■( cl 1- • v-«" - - !- . “J am not one.of those who believe, as I fear somemin our ranks do believe, that the-Government.should become a glorified aboard of guardians, because the salvation of our countrywill not be found in merely doling out money from'Government-sources without having-any regard as to the way in which the the income is produced.” —Mr C. T. ;Oramp, of. the-N.TT.II.