Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3490, 21 April 1890, Page 2

Correspondence.

Rowdyism and Crime.

(To tUe Editor.) Sir,-In an illconsidored letter in your issue of Saturday, headed, " Where are the police," it is stated that a number of petty offences have been committed without their perpetrators being detected. Would it greatly surprise your correspondent that the undetected perpetrators of the crimes he enumerates, are the very hoodlums who serenadenewly married couple3,-and whose antics he is disposed to regard with favor? I cau assurehini that theseovergrowniMooJ Boys with a taste for bcatiug " old kerosene tins" by no means confine themselves tp thjs innocent and elevating amusement. Getting tired of their Bweetsymphonies.they relieve the monotony by throwing stones and brickbats about in an uncertain and playful sort of manner, until the fqn waxes fast and furious, and then by way of variety tljoy tab to smashing fences, breaking into houses without oooupants, and carrying off whatever they can lay their, hands upon. These are only a few of the frolics of those frisky young rattleheads amongst others which I oould name; and they are facts. Your correspondent may depend upon it, that if duok shooting, orchard pilfering, and window smashing, are to be put down, the police in arresting the "tinkettlers" have taken the first step in that direction, lain, etc., Play Fair,