EFFICIENCY OF POLICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21423, 22 February 1933, Page 11

EFFICIENCY OF POLICE

TRIBUTE BY JUDGE FEW CASES AT HAMILTON [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday A tribute to the efficiency of the police was paid by Mr. Justice Smith at the opening of the Hamilton Supreme Court to-day. Addressing the grand jury, His Honor said there were only four cases set down for trial. This number was only half of the average number dealt with at Hamilton and the fact could be taken as a credit to the town. When persons pleaded guilty, the Expense of trial was saved the country. Citizens, he added, should recognise how much they owed to the efficiency of the police. His Honor then reviewed the circumstances of the four cases, which included charges against two men of negligently driving motor vehicles and causing death. The grand jury returned a true bill in each case. NO OASES OP DISHONESTY GISBORNE CONGRATULATED [by telegraph—press association] GISBORNE, Tuesday The quarterly sitting of the Supreme Court was opened .before Mr. Justice Blair, who, in his charge to the grand jury, congratulated the district on the fact that there were no cases before the grand jury involving dishonesty. All the cases were of assault, involving in all seven persons. The grand jury returned true bills in all cases.