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APPENDIX A—continued. Return showing the Number of Offences reported, the Number of Offences for which Persons were apprehended or summoned, and Comparison of Crime during the Year ended 31st December, 1938, and Year ended 31st December, 1939—continued.

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1988. 1939. Increase or I Decrease in S % S Results of Cases in which Persons were Number of g g g,g apprehended or summoned. Number of Offences w « 8* . (Charges asainst Males and Females p ° reported. Offence,. ° ? £3! separately.) amongst those « 0 S> If ~~ committed ov o'g o32 Committed Summarily Dismissed for Trlal - for Trial. convicted. . |1 fl ||1 i g 0 a) S <u S'§ g ftp § u I " 3 9 jvr. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. a M >5 A I fl H Gaming Act. Common gaming-house, keeping or 119 149 149 .. .. 138 7 4 .. .. 30 managing, &c. Found in a common gaming-house .. 207 88 88 .... 81 3 4 .. .. .. 119 Gaming with instruments . . .. 61 61 61 .... 53 .. 8 Publishing advertisements relating to 1 1 1 .... I betting on horse-races Latteries, unlawfully establishing or 10 9 9 8 I .. .. 1 conducting, &c. Betting, unlawful .. .. .. 19 12 12 .... 4 8 .. .. .. 7 Following the occupation of bookmaker 120 118 118 .... 115 .. 3 .. .. .. 2 Publishing betting charts .. .. 7 1 I .... 1 .. . . <> Trespass on racecourse .. .. 55 52 52 .... 51 .. 1 .. .. .. o Post and Telegbafh Act. Illegally opening or delaying postal 5 1 1 .... .. 1 .. . ■ 4 packets Stealing postal packets, mail-bags, &c. 14 81 76 1 50 1 24 1 67 Stealing money, &c., from postal 2 7 4 .... 3 1 .. 5.. packets Unlawfully opening mail-bags .. 3 .. .. .... .. Fraudulently secreting or detaining 3 .. .. .... .. .. ■ • 3 misdelivered mail bags, &c. Injuring post-office pillars or boxes .. 23 45 15 .... 15 .. 22 Damaging telegraph equipment .. 59 49 26 .... 26 .. .. 10 Posting indecent post-cards or letters.. I 13 6 .... 3 .. 3 .. .. 12 False statement re posting postal I .. .. .... .. .. .. 1 packet Destitute Persons Act. Failing to maintain wife or children .. 2,057 1,570 1,434 .. •• 1,229 8 197 .. .. .. .. 487 Failing for fourteen days to pay main- 2,594 2,595 2,478 .. •• 2,207 13 256 2 .. .. 1 tenance moneys Offences by husbands while separation 30 35 35 .... 31 .. 4 .. .. 5 orders are in force Offences prescribed in sections 52 to 58 3 2 2 .... 1 .. 1 .. .. .. 1 of Destitute Persons Act Shipping and Seamen Act. Ship-desertion .. .. .. 178 219 156 •• •• 150 .. 6 .. .. 41 Absent without leave .. .. 18 10 7 .... 7 .. •• •• 8 Offences against discipline .. .. 2 1 I .... 1 • • .. 1 Harbouring deserters . . . . . . 1 I .... 1 ■ • 1 Stowing away .. .. .. 32 51 51 .... 51 .. 19 Licensing Act. Permitting drunkenness or violent 1 8 8 .... 7 .. 1 •• •• 7.. conduct Selling or supplying liquor to intoxi- 3 12 12 .... 9 1 2 .. .. 9 cated persons Keeping disorderly houses .. .. .. 1 1 .... 1 • • .... . ■ •. J Permitting gaming, gambling, &c. .. .. 2 2 .... 2 ..... ■■ ■■ 2 Selling or supplying liquor, or exposing 661 767 767 .. .. 558 28 174 7 .. .. 10b for sale, or opening or keeping open premises at unauthorized times Supplying liquor to persons under 48 73 73 .... 60 3 9 1.. .. 25 twenty-one years Selling or supplying liquor to prohibited 15 12 12 7 1 •• •• 6 persons Permitting prohibited persons to be on 1 2 2 .... 2 .. premises 9 Unlawfully employing females in or 2 .. .. about a bar ( ( Employing minors in bars .. .. 4 2 2 .... 2 .. ■ ■ • • • ■ • • Illegally supplying liquor to Natives .. 101 183 182 .. .. 170 .i 9 .. • . oObstructing Inspectors or refusing 1 5 5 .... 5 4.. entrance to Inspectors or constables Having or purchasing labels for bottling .. 1 1 .... 1 •• 1.. contrary to Act _, wj Breaches of prohibition orders ,. 641 603 602 .. .. 566 11 2 .. .. •.