A SHORT LIST.
With Mr Justice Cooper we join in congratulating the district on the comparative absence of crime as revealed in the. small calendar presented to the Grand Jury at the Supreme Court this morning. The list is in fact the shortest since the Supreme Court commenced its sittings here in 1903 and it is to be hoped its brevity on this occasion will be a feature of subsequent local sessions. Palmerston, from its central position naturally gets the credit, or rather the discredit, of the crime of an extensive district, so that the condition of the calendar to-day was doubly pleasing. Few criminals arrested might be taken by some to be evidence of lax police supervision but that is certainly not the case in Palmerston, tho only cause for the small amount of criminal business being the freedom from serious offences that has marked the past four-month-ly period.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8603, 9 June 1908, Page 4
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150A SHORT LIST. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8603, 9 June 1908, Page 4
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