POLITICAL NEWS AND NOTES.
A solicitor remarked in the Magistrate's ! Court this morning that he was instructed that bis client (defendant in an action) had "gone through" £10,276 ia "Wellington in sight months. \ i With reference to a letter from Mr. A. R. Atkinson, President of the Wellington Prohibition League, which appeared in our issue of Tuesday, and which questioned the figures of the Commissioner of Police concerning the statistics of drunkenness, we find on enquiry that, owing to an error in compilation, the number of females summarily convicted of the offence was erroneously quoted in the report as 1167, instead of only 767. The total number of persona apprehended or summoned should therefore read 5204 in place of 5604, and the increase of 199 over the number of cases reported during the previous year is a true comparison, and the total increase of offences reported is 546, as staled in the return. We have seen the various district returns from which Commissioner Tunbridge's report was compiled in proof of the correctness of the foregoing.
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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1898, Page 6
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