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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 ending 31st December, 1918, and Year ending 31st December, 1919—continued.

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1918. en 0) O a § O o| 03 fH •° 2 a a Q a h 1919. Increase or Decrease in Number of Offences reported. CO 03 03 a 03 W o 73 °£ *i a Pi CD a G CO «3 C/3 03 -W 03 03 t/3 co °«j a •g a _ a - 1 ® ft Results of Cases in which Persoi.s wore apprehended or summoned. (Charges against Males and Females separately.) OHonces. Number of Convictions amongst those committed for Trial. I Committed Summarily for Trial. convicted. Dismissed. i i CD !£; 1 8 a . o M. ! P. M. F. M. P. M. I P. I ' Gaming Act. Common gaming-house, keeping or managing, &c. Found in a common gaming-house .. (iaming with instruments Publishing advertisements relating to betting on horse-races Lotteries, unlawfully establishing or conducting, &c. Betting, unlawful Publishing betting-card 21 96 67 4 18 84 155 23 1.8 84 155 23 15 44 117 13 3 40 38 10 88 19 3 12 7 4 4 3 1 3 80 39 1 39 1 31 1 8 9 1 Post and Telegraph Act. Posting packet containing explosive, &c. Illegally opening or delaying postal packets Stealing postal packets, mail-hags, &c. Stealing money, &c, from postal packets Unlawfully opening mail-bags Fraudulently secreting or detaining misdelivered mail-bags, &c. Injuring post-office pillars or boxes .. 3 19 2 2 2 1 5 35 8 2 4 1 4 35 5 2 3 23 4 2 3 4 I 1 7 4 I 23 3 2 3 4 1 I 2 16 6 2 8 3 3 8 Destitute Persons Act. Failing to maintain wife or children .. Failing for fourteen days to pay main-tenance-moneys Offences by husbands while separation orders are in force Offoncos prescribed in sections 52 to 58 of Destitute Persons Aot 933 893 1 1,205 1,017 24 1,109 911 24 847 651 20 20 11 235 244 4 7 5 272 124 23 17 12 12 6 6 5 Shipping, and Seamen Act. Ship-desertion Absont without leave Offences against discipline Wilfully damaging ship, stores, or cargo Embezzling cargo Harbouring deserters Stowing away 60 54 8 56 120 10 1 21 7 14 45 116 10 1 21 7 14 44 108 9 1 20 6 12 1 8 1 66 2 I 9 4 11 4 12 3 3 1 2 Licensing Act. Permitting drunkenness or violent conduct Selling or supplying liquor to intoxicated persons Permitting gaming, gambling, &o. Selling or supplying liquor, or exposing for sale, or opening or keeping open premises at unauthorized times Supplying liquor to persons under twenty-one years Selling or supplying liquor to prohibited persons Permitting prohibited pei'sons to be on premises Unlawfully employing females in or about a bar Employing minors in bars Illegally supplying liquor to Natives . . Selling adultorated liquor Obstructing Inspectors or refusing entrance to Inspectors or constables Having or purchasing labels for bottling contrary to Act Using bottles with labels more than once Breaches of prohibition orders Found on licensed premises after closing-horn's Refusing to quit licensed premises Selling or exposing liquor for salo without a license Found on premises where liquor was seized under a warrant 29 24 2 313 81 56 7 4 24 32 2 369 66 60 4 24 32 2 369 66 60 4 14 20 2 168 36 49 2 2 34 12 4 7 9 134 ll 7 1 1 12 33 1 1 3 56 4 4 27 5 3 8 15 5 1 55 1 12 5 82 6 15 5 82 0 15 4 68 6 7 2 2 3 3 I 1 1 1 1,012 844 3 1,384 830 3 1,379 830 3 1,200 687 149 4 25 137 5 2 3 372 14 46 91 57 50 57 50 52 37 3 4 2 7 2 It 41 5 3 3 3 2