DECREASE IN CRIME.
CHARGES AT WELLINGTON.
TRIALS IN SUPREME COURT. | BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN COItKKSPONDEXT. ] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Chief Justice.-, Sir Michael Myers, in his charge to tho grand jury in the Supreme Court yesterday, cnicl he was glad to ho able to inform tho jurors that their duties would not he arduous or strenuous There would bo submitted to them 11 indictments against 13 accused persons. Tho list was not an unusually long one. His Honor remarked that ho could well remember that in days gone by there used to bo submitted at the quarterly sittings of tho Court anything up to 20 or 30 in dictmerits That was prior to 1900. when an Act was passed which enabled an accused person to plead guilty in tho Lower C-onrt, and be committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence. Tho position now was that tho umoyn.t of criino which came before tho quarterly sittings of the Court was apparently much less than it was years ago
In conclusion, flis Honor said that if one took the ploas of guilty (luring the quarter |ust ended, and the number of cases for trial at that sitting, thoy showed rather favourably .for the city and tho surrounding district.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20629, 30 July 1930, Page 14
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204DECREASE IN CRIME. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20629, 30 July 1930, Page 14
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