CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.
ALARMING INCREASE IN DOMINION.
CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 4
Comment on tlie increase in crimes against property, was made by Mr Wynern Wilson, S.M., to-day, when a young man was charged with the theft of a harness. . . The Magistrate said a deplorable state of affairs existed. On looking over the recent statistics, he had found that one crime had increased more than any other, .and that was the crime relating to property. Offences against persons had not increased- but crimes against P r dP ert y had increased 50 per cent., ant. be* was sorry to say that by far the greater number of offences had been committed by men between >—« ages of twenty-one- and twenty-five,. It looked as if a great many young thieves were growing up in the Dominion. There was only one way to deal’with crimes of this kind, and that was to impose severe sentences in the cases which came before the Court. —P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6184, 15 September 1921, Page 5
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