SUPREME COURT
SESSION AT AUCKLAND I Doited Press Association] AUCKLAND, This Day. In his charge to the Grand Jury at the opening of the criminal session of the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Callan said that there was a disturbingly large number of indictments alleging sexual offences. The total number of indictments was about the average for Auckland. A satisfactory feature was that there were only two charges of negligent driving, also only one person accused of breaking and entering, and there were no accusations of unnatural offences. It was rather disquieting that there were eleven sexual offences alleged in a list of 27 indictments against 27 persons. The number of Maoris accused of sexual offences appeared to be in excess of their proportion in the population.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 1 February 1939, Page 8
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