THE TEAK'S POLICE OFFENCES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 87

THE TEAK'S POLICE OFFENCES.

DUNEDIN RETURNS. A review of the police offences for the City of Dunedin, as reported at the Central i Police Station during the past jear, shows > that the total number was 1547. as against j 1490 for 1907. The principal offences, for ! the past year were as follows, the figures ' in parentheses being for the previous jear: i Common assault 42 (39), assaults on police S (5), assaults and robbery 3 (2). breaches \ 'j{ the peace 33 (55), breaking and entering L 7 (34), wife desertion 78 (76), disobeying \ orders of court and summonses 68 (63). ( disorderly conduct 10 (23). drunkenness 667 I [531), failing to support parents and near I relatives 21 (21). false prelenees 13 '1.3). ! gaming offences 8 (9), indecent behaviour ! 23 (33), malicious injury to property 32 j [26), neglected and criminal children 9 (24), | ib3cene language 37 (43), resisting police j 27 (16). opium smoking 5 (9). sly grogsellinpr 6 (4), theft 147 (150), theft from Spellings 9 (9), theft from the person 2 [6), vagrancy 38 (54), breaches of prohibi- '. ;ion ordei-3 69 (59). The returns for drunkenness show that ; jf the total of 667 there were 616 males • md 50 females, and one person discharged. I ; I'liis. as compared with 581 ai rests for the previous 3"ear, shows an increase of 36. Twenty-five domestic ser^am^ ai rived by ' ;hu Tainui, from Lo.iclon, under engage- 1 ii«nt to the syrjdicate <->f Napier ladies who wye already brought out similar contin- 1 rents Iran; Bmdaad. 1 i