CRIMINAL CASES IN WELLINGTON
STEADY INCREASE THROUGHOUT LAST YEAR
(THIS A.SBOCIA.TIOH tbi.xgbamJ WELLINGTON. January 2L More than 7000 criminal cases were dealt with by Magistrates and Justices of the Peace at Wellington during toe last year. The Court statistics snow that 7498 criminal cases came °n *? hearing, and if 702 heard in the cnudren's Court are taken into account the total reaches 8200. . The figures for each successive quarter are:—Males. 1270. 1482, 189* 2281; females. 119, 156, 147. 150. The Children's Court figures are:-" Males, 140, 200, 215, 101; females, ** 12. 9, 11. .. . Fees and fines for the year totaliea £12.007 10s. Civil complaints for each sive quarter were 1516, 1735, I*J* 1379, and the total amounts sued . towere £30.524. £28.498 14s 9d, £17,«2 13s 9d, and £21,055 Is.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22307, 22 January 1938, Page 20
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