Cost of Police Force.
Although the cost per inhabitant of policing the Dominion has increased from 7s Sid in 1940 to 7s Hid in 1941, says the annual report of the Commissioner (Mr. D. J. Cummings), presented in the House of Representatives, the criminal statistics for 1940 show an aggregate decrease of 1360 on those for 1939. Offences reported totalled 45,009, from which 41,621 arrests or summonses resulted.
Dean’s Hope For Stalin. Stalin hr a Christian, Dean Moore, of Perth, thinks. “Stalin was brought up to be a monk,’’ the Dean said this week, “but he saw so much of the inside of the Church in Russia under the Czars, that he turned it down. One reason why there has been a letup in the anti-God business is, I think, that Stalin is still a Christian at heart.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 190, 14 August 1941, Page 4
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