BURGLARIES IN AUCKLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14682, 13 May 1908, Page 7

BURGLARIES IN AUCKLAND.

INTERVIEW WITH THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE. . [FaoAi Or/it CoKߣsi>oxm:N"T.] '' AUCKLAND, May 11. The recent frequency of burglaries in Auckland and elsewhere was referred to by a '•' Herald " representative in the course of an interview with tiie Minister of Justice. Mr MTJownn said that the police were doing all that was possible in their endeavours to detect the burglars, hut he thougiit that too much carelessness war, displayed by householders. They could, ho said, help themselves a groat deal in tho matter by being more careful in regard, to their money and valuables, and also by giving the police the earliest possible notification, instead of allowing considerable time to elapse before reporting the theft.", as was often the case. On being asked whether he agreed, with' tho reticence observed by tlie police- in regard to these burglaries, Mr M'Gowan said that he considered the police, were quite correct in the attitude taken up. Any publication of information in connection with the burglaries was read by the burglars themselves, and it thus tended to assist them in evading arrest.