CRIME IN AUCKLAND.
(Pee- United Fbess Association.)
Auckland, January 23.
The offence return for the year ending De« cember 1894 for the Auckland district has just been compiled by the police authorities, and contrasted with the return of 1893 it brings out gome interesting facts. There appears to be an increase of 519 cases in various olassea oi offences and a decrease of 302 in others, nuking a net increase of 217 cases. There is a decrease of 100 in arrests for drnnkenneae, abusive language) common assaults on the police, obstructing sod resisting the police, breaches ot the peace, burglary, and shoplifting; but assault and robberyj cattle and horse stealing, wife desertion and failing to provide for children, illegally on the premises, and theft all show substantial increases. Other classes of crime show little material change in the figures. Tha largest decreases are in cases of cruelty to anima)s, lunacy, accessory to manslaughter, discharging firearms, obscene language, stone throwing, stowing away on board vessels* trespass, and vagrancy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10265, 24 January 1895, Page 2
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