JUDGE DEPLORES.
NUMBER OF SEXUAL CASES. NAPIER SUPREME COURT. [By Telegraph.—Press. Association] NAPIER, Feb. 15. The number of sexual charges coming before the Supreme Court at Napier during the present session was deplored by Mr. Justice Blair in his address to the grand jury. Altogether 11 cases were on the criminal list, half of which were of a sexual nature. Of the other charges, the outstanding one was of alleged negligent driving causiiig death, the sequel to a collision at Hastings. The Judge remarked that the accused was apparently in the wrong in not giving way to a lighter car approaching from the right, the driver of which was killed.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20238, 15 February 1938, Page 3
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