CRIMINAL STATISTICS.
DECREASE IX TOTALS EOR THE YEAR. The criminal statistics contained in the annual. report on the Police Force of the. Dominion, show tlnit during the yenr ended .31 si Deeeml.ier, there was an aggregate net decrease i)l: 2,057 on the figures- ot 1917, the proportion of alienees to the population being LO-Lper cent., as against LSI) the previous year. Serious offences reported decreased by 28, but the number of offences in which arrests resulted increased by 8. indecent and sexual-offences decreased by 100, and prosecutions for drunkenness by Lo<2, (he,principal decrease in the latter instance, being -112 in the Wellington district. Slv grog-selling prosecutions. 130, decreased by three, as compared jwiih the previous year, and convictions, 07, by 21. Fines imposed on slv grog-selling amounted to £1,300, against C 1,032 in 1017. In the matter of fines for this offence, the Hamilton district led the way with .(‘560, Wellington was next with £IBO, and then came Dunedin and Wanganui with £l7O each.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2031, 20 September 1919, Page 4
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164CRIMINAL STATISTICS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2031, 20 September 1919, Page 4
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