INCREASING CRIME
From Our Special Parliamentary Reporter.
SOiME INTERESTING FIGURES. DETATLS OF SUYMONSES.
WELLINGTON, This day. The criminal statistics for the past year as revealed by the annual report tabled in tbe House yesterday, show a.i aggregate net increase of 994 on tiie figures of 1927, tbe propovtion of offences to tbe population being 2.25 per cent as against 2.21 in the previous year. The number of offeuoes reported during the year was 33,138, and the number of offences in which arrests or summonses resulted was 30,622. The Korious offences notified totalled 1415 and arrests numbered 960. Tndecent and sexual offences were 551 in number. Charges of drunkenness in 1928 were 6601 (6298 males and 303 females). as against 6854 (6546 males and 338 females) in 1927. Of that number 35.5 per cent of tbe males and 51.4 per cent of the females had previous convictions against them.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 171, 21 August 1929, Page 8
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148INCREASING CRIME Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 171, 21 August 1929, Page 8
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