Freedom from Crime. It is a custom of tho Supreme Court that, ■when there are no criminal charges set down for hearing, the presiding Judge, when opening the quarterly sessions, is presented with a pair of white gloves. Tho nearest approach '. this desirable ideal in Wellington for forty years was reached at the opening of the Supreme Court sessions to-day by his Honour Mr. Justice Reed, who congratulated the district upon the present comparative absence of crime, as there were only three criminal charges, none of them of a very serious naturfc __, ' -
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1926, Page 6
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