WAVE OF CRIME.
NO ARRESTS MADE. ARB POLICE GOING SLOW? (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI,'.This Day.' At the Supreme Court to-day, Jeffrey Johnson; on a chare of theft of £6O at Martpn, wqs sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Sir Robert .Stout commented on the number of thefts recently, particularly the wave of crime in the Manawatu district. It appeared to His Honour that either the police had affected a goslow policy and were not doing their duty, or that some people regarded thieving as a thing not wrong. He believed that the police would do their best to stop this thieving, but no arrests had been made.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14127, 27 May 1920, Page 5
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