CRIME IN AUSTRALIA.
N.S. WALES GAOL POPULATION NEW ZBALANDJBK6 PBOMI. NEXT. Received 1,12.65 a.m. Stbnst, April 30. The report of the Controller-General ! of Prisons to December 81st last, shows ' ; : that the decrease in the number of prisoners continues. It was satisfac. factory to note that crime was not in. creating within tilt flommonweslth. From the flgum received from thf various States and Hew Zealand, it is shown that New Zealand Is the only part of Australasia where there has been an increase gaol population. Inquiry as to the nationality of pri* soners in the State shofts that fifteen hundred and forty-fivj eome frotii neighbouring States, while thou horn in New Zealand contributed the largo , J number of three hundred and fifty-two. ,<i Victoria sent seven hundred and ninety-five. Nearly half of New $ South Wales' prison population were ' >&' native born. Three thousand six hun> dredand thirty-seven eame from the i, United Kingdom, six hundred and fifty-two from Europe, three hundred ,? and fourteen from America, and two hundred from Asia and the South Seas. '
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8098, 1 May 1906, Page 2
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172CRIME IN AUSTRALIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8098, 1 May 1906, Page 2
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