SUPREME COURT.
rPxa Press A«u«nnATTos.l i, NAPIER, Ausust 29. T The Su-nreme Court opened before Mr Justice Cnnper, to-day. In his eharere to fch.3 Grand Jury his Honor commented at length on the report of the Prison Department, and in connection therewith remark ed on the abnormal increase in crime, al*houeb not of a serious nature, in this district! the offences renorted during 1903 *howm<r an incr^se of 500 on -those o* the previous year. His Honor also commented on the unusual length of the calendar at the present session, the list comprising UventY-one charwa.' Referriwr to the case* \n wfci-h four "Ratines boys v,-ere chanred •with brenlrins and entering, Mr Justice Coorjer comment^ on the apparent lack of mrental control.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8101, 29 August 1904, Page 3
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