FORGERY.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 10, 15 May 1875, Page 3

FORGERY.

In his charge to the Grand Jury at Christchurch lately, Mr Justice Williams said :—“ There are two oases of forgery down, a crime of common occurrence here. 1 find that last year not less than six convictions in this district for this offence. Ignorance is the parent of many crimes, but forgery an 1 crimes of fraud require a certain amount of education to perpetrate them successfnly ; as education becomes more widely diffused it may reasonably bo expected that crimes of violence will diminish, hut it will he in.lced unfortunate if crimes of fraud become, more prevalent. In tins province noble efforts are made to promote education. If these efforts are to produce good fruit it must ever bo borne in mind that education, to be complete, must develop the moral sentiments as well as the intellectual powers. Do not think that I wish for a moment to enter on the vexed question of religious education. I merely rape the Importance of sound moral traininp, that children at our State schools may bo taught to admire. what is noble and generous, and to detest, what is mean, and become upright and honourable men and women. Wo must look to the ednealiou of the emotions as well the mechanical acquirement if we wish to nap the full benefit of education, as a pr. venliiive of crime, and as a means of producing good citizens.:—“ Nelson Mail. ’