CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
"DEPLORABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.”
By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, September 14. Comment on the increase in crimes against property was made by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.. to-day, when a young man was charged with the theft of harness. The Magistrate said that a deplorable state of affairs existed. On looking over recent statistics, he found that one class of crime had increased more than any other, and that was crime relating to property. < Offences against persons had not increased, but crimes against property had increased by 50 per Cent., and he was sorry to sav that by far the greater number of offences had been committed b.v men between the. ages of twenty-one and twenty-five. Tt looked as if a great many young thieves were growing up in the Dominion, added His Worship. There wns only one way to deal with crime of this kind, and that was to impose severe sentences in cases which came before the Court.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 302, 15 September 1921, Page 5
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161CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 302, 15 September 1921, Page 5
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