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Offences. 1945. 1946. Number of Offences reported. Number of Offences reported. Number of Offences in which Arrests or Summonses resulted. Police Offences Act —continued Unlawfully using horses, motor-cars, &c. 1,381 1,216 876 Unlawfully on premises at night without criminal intent .. 195 276 259 Sunday trading 16 40 40 False allegation re commission of offence 19 10 10 Obtaining entrance to entertainment without paying fee .. 2 1 1 Unlawfully entering motor-car 1 1 Unlawfully killing domestic ducks 1 Gaming Act Common gaming-house, keeping or managing, &c. 168 96 95 Found in a common gaming-house 396 48 48 83 Gaming with instruments .. 76 83 Publishing advertisements relating to betting on horse-races 1 5 5 Lotteries, unlawfully establishing or conducting, &c. 28 19 19 Betting, unlawful 15 11 11 Following the occupation of bookmaker 235 179 179 Publishing betting charts 9 6 6 Trespass on racecourse 73 74 73 Post and Telegraph Act Putting explosive, &c., into post-office, &c. 2 2 Illegally opening or delaying postal packets 2 3 3 Stealing postal packets, mail-bags, &c. 83 53 52 Stealing money, &c., from postal packets 3 3 3 Unlawfully opening mail-bags 13 11 11 Injuring post-office pillars or boxes 5 3 Damaging telegraph-equipment 49 38 23 Posting indecent post-cards or letters 5 3 2 False statement re posting postal packet 4 3 3 Misuse of telephone 15 11 11 Destitute Persons Act Failing to maintain wife or children 1,196 1,329 1,266 Failing for fourteen days to pay maintenance moneys 1,661 1,627 1,565 Offences by husbands while separation orders are in force 12 13 11 Offences prescribed in sections 52 to 58 of Destitute Persons 3 3 3 Act Shipping and Seamen Act Misconduct endangering his ship or lives of persons thereon "230 2 2 Ship-desertion 540 449 Absent without leave 27 85 70 Offences against discipline 6 6 O Embezzling cargo 4 2 z 01 Stowing away . • • • 13 31 61 Licensing Act Permitting drunkenness or violent conduct 3 3 3 Selling or supplying liquor to intoxicated persons 6 0 Permitting gaming, gambling, &c. "387 3 . 0 Selling or supplying liquor, or exposing for sale, or opening 448 446 or keeping open premises at unauthorized times 50 Supplying liquor to persons under twenty-one years 28 28 Selling or supplying liquor to prohibited persons 4 3 3 Unlawfully employing females in or about a bar ' *208 3 3 Illegally supplying liquor to Natives 139 135 Selling adulterated liquor 1