JUDGE DISPLEASED
MANY SERIOUS CRIMES AUCKLAND SESSIONS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Regret that in the list, comprising Hi bills of indictment, there was an unusually large proportion of serious crime, was expressed by Mr. Justice Fair in his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court to-day. - Five were charges of negligently driving, motor vehicles, in four cases so as to cause death and. in the fifth, so as to cause serious injury. There were no fewer than 10 bilks charging person with committing sexual otlences. The other cases were two alleged cases of pocket-picking in hotel bars, one of obtaining money by false pretences, and one of the theft of a heifer.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20547, 6 May 1941, Page 8
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