WHITE GLOVES FOR THE JUDGE.
THE CLIMATE & THE CRIMINAL.
INVERCARGILL, Feb. 25. The Supreme Court was opened today. There, was no criminal business on the calendar and Sir Joshua Williams was presented with a pair of white gloves bv the Crown Prosecutor, who said that this was the fourth occasion during recent years that no criminal cases had been set before the court.
Sir Joshua. Williams said that it was a source of high satisfaction tha,t this district and the whole of Otago should be free from serious crime. "I am glad to say," lie continued "that the habitual criminal does not'find the climate of Otaa;o and Southland suit-i ,ed to him. What is the exact reason' there should be so little crime Here and se much unfortunately in other parts of the Dominion it is difficult to say."
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 57, 28 February 1913, Page 6
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139WHITE GLOVES FOR THE JUDGE. Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 57, 28 February 1913, Page 6
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