MANAWATU DISTRICT
FREEDOM FROM CRIME. (United Press Association.) Palmerston North, October 20. Congratulations to the Manawatu district on the almost total absence of crime were expressed by Mr Justice Ostler at the opening of the Supreme Court. “Not only once, but again and again, there is very little crime in your district,” he said to the Grand Jury. “Only one case figures on the criminal calendar, this being a charge of manslaughter arising out of a fight between two Maori footballers. I strongly suspect that you have to thank the efficiency of the police for the absence of crime. Though this is a large and growing city professional criminals seem to give it a wide berth and go to some other place.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23026, 21 October 1936, Page 8
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122MANAWATU DISTRICT Southland Times, Issue 23026, 21 October 1936, Page 8
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