THE DOMINION'S CRIME

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 11 August 1908, Page 5

THE DOMINION'S CRIME

INCREASES AND DECREASES.

A clear and comprehensive idea of the crime of the^Dominion for the past /ear as compared with 1906 may be gathered from the following table attached to the annual report of the Commissioner of Police: — Abandoning children, increase front 4to 5. , Procuring abortion, increase from I to 4. . • Attempting to procure abortion, decrease to 4. Arson, decrease from 17 to 12. Common assaults, increase from 814 to 926. Indecent assaults, decrease from 65 to 46 . Assaults occasioning bodily harm, increase from 47 to 50. Assaults on police, decrease from 105 to 72. Assaults and robbery, decrease front ,55 to 47,. Begging, decrease from 20 to 17. Bigamy, decrease from 3 to 1. Breaches of the peace, increase from 528 to 693* Burglary, etc., increase from 315 to 350:,= Carnally knowing girls, increase from 21 to 87. ; ' Coinage, offences, increase from 1 to 4. Cruelty to animals, increase from 169 to 214. Cruelty to children, increase from 4 to M . Deserting and failing to provide for wives and children, increase from 588 to 600. •-' .' , Deserters and absentees from merchant vessels; inorease from 84 to 132. Disorderly and; riotous conduct, inorease from 346 to 368. ' Drunkenness, increase from 9210 to 10,203.' . ' ..'•-. I' Failing to support parents and near relatives, increase frbm 311 to 359. Gaming offences, increase from 146 to 198. . «"; . Indecent behaviour, increase from 235 to 349 . . Keeping disorderly ' nouses, increase from 25 to 42.' MalicioHs injury to property, increase /rom 454 to 491. , Neglected and criminal children, increase from '192 to 203. Obscene and profane language, increase from 812 to 841. Obstructing and resisting the police, increase from 169 to 184. Offensive publications, decrease from 47 to 6. Rape, decrease from* 10 to 4, Attempted rape, decrease from 13 to 10. Perjury, increase from 16 to 31. Sly grog selling, increase from 146 to 184. Soliciting prostitution, increase from 36 to 44. Theft, increase from" 1858 to 2053. Thefts by servants, increase from 86 to 116. Theft from dwellings, decrease from 269 to 242. Theft from the person, increase from 71 to 78. Unlawful assembling, increase from 0 to 18. Vagrancy, increase from 692 to 696. Witchcraft, decrease from 7 to 3.