DANGER FOR WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 177, 25 January 1912, Page 2

DANGER FOR WOMEN.

ATTACKS IN AUCKLAND SUBURBS. Auckland, Tuesday. Recent after-dark happenings in the Remuera district have occasioned some uneasiness amongst the women folk of the suburb. Some little time ago- a ladjp who was going home from town after ten o'clock at night obsei'ved a mail whom she had just passed after she left the tram. At Greenwood's corner, she turned her head as the man came dose to her and immediately received a stunning blow. on the face. She cried for assistance, and her assailant made off. Just about a week later an almoßt identical assault look place on a single young woman in Fairfax street at about 11 p.m. The young lady had left the car near Newmarket and gone up the street towards her' home. She turned when she heard following footsteps in order to see who was behind. It was a man who, without warning, struck her in the mouth, Knocking out some teeth. The young lady screamed, and the man made off, while she went to a near-by house and procured an escort home. Police inquiries have so far not had any definite result in the way of arrest. The occurrences, however, draw attention to the fact that while the suburban areas of Auckland have greatly extended and become thickly populated within the past few years, the police staffing of ] the districts has not been proportionately increased. Though the class of tile suburban population is law-abiding and honest, the events chronicled above indir cate the necessity for closer police surveillance and protection.