SYDNEY POLICE
“Going*' Saturday Crowds OVER 500 ARRESTED (Rec. 6.30). SYDNEY, August 25. Sydney city and suburban police on Saturday arrested over five hundred people. This was.' a continuation of their campaign against crime and disorder. Special police ■ squads patrolled the metropolitan area. They used thirty vehicles, in addition to the usual patrol cars. Charges made by them include drunkenness, assault, and offensive, riotous and indecent behaviour. At the Darlinghurst police station a charge was lodged every four minutes between two p.m. and eight p.m. According to an article in “The Medical Journal of Australia”, the Commonwealth is second in the liS't of countries in point of the number of convictions for drunkenness per head of population. Norway heads the list. England has a beer consumption fifty pel' cent per head higher than Australia. England, however, has only one-eighth of the drunkenness. The police courts claim that drink, causes eighty per cent, of offences here.
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Grey River Argus, 26 August 1946, Page 5
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