CRIME IN AUSTRALIA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 112, 15 May 1906, Page 2

CRIME IN AUSTRALIA.

STATEMENT BY MR COGHLAN

ALLEGATIONS REPUDIATED

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 14, 9.44 p.m.) LONDON, May 14. Mr Coghlan, New South Wales Agent-General, in a letter to the "Times," emphatically denies the allegation that crime has greatly increased in Australia since the abolition of State-aided denominational schools in the cities. Statistics show that during the last thirty years the arrests in New. South Wales' and Victoria declined considerably more than onethird—the greatest improvement being since 1890. As regards serious crime the improvement is equally satisfactory. The actual confinees "in Australian prisons are considerably less now than twenty years ago. Australian native-born people are far less given to crime than those who are educated elsewhere.