CARGOES OF LAMBS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21034, 9 December 1933, Page 9

CARGOES OF LAMBS

PENINSULA TO KAIAPOI The first of six consignments of fat lambs from the Peninsula arrived in Kaiapoi at 9.30 yesterday morning by the scow Ngahau. This consignment consisted of 476 lambs, and another load was due at Kaiapoi at 8 o'clock last evening from Little Akaloa. If everything goes according to plan another trip will be made to-day, followed by one on Sunday, and the consignments will conclude with two trips on Monday.

No difficulty was experienced by the scow in getting over the bar, which had moved further south.

The startling estimate that one in every 300 persons in the United States was concerned in crime, made by Colonel Moss, directing the National Crime Council, is reported by the "Daily Telegraph." Every year, he said, crimes averaged:—Murders, 12,000; kidnappings, 3000; assaults, 10,000. The murder rate had gone up by 350 per cent, in the last 40 years, he added. "The general public," Colonel Moss went on, "does not realise that the most successful criminals keep an attorney on a yearly fee. The attorney telephones his client daily at a given time. If he fails to reach the client two days running he makes a round of the gaols. When he finds him he goes to see a 'sympathetic' judge, who helps to release the client on a habeas corpus basis. Our greatest difficulty lies in the aliiance of corrupt judges, crooked politicians, and grafting police officers."