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'Classification of Summary Convictions, with the Punishments awarded. Licensing Districts. Taken into Custody, summoned, or apprehended. Discharged by the Magistrate for Want of Prosecution or Want of Evidence. Dismissed on the Merits. Committed for Trial. Summarily convicted. Summary Convictions. Punishments. Orders made. ! Offences against the I Person. Offences against Property. Drunkenness. Other Offences. Fine. imprisonment in lieu of ?ine or Surety. Peremptory |, gg*jj:g Imprisonment -S , o £ Wakatipu Wallace Invercargill .. Awarua M.and F. ISO 127 592 89 M. 141 116 546 89 F. 9 11 46 M. 27 19 22 3 F. 1 2 1 2 I M. 2 IS 108 7 F. 5 14 M. 5 1 i 31 F. I M. .. 107 .. i 81 385 .. ; 79 F. 7 5 30 M. 7 14 15 F. j M. 10 3 66 F. '4 M. 26 122 16 F. 3 4 M. F. 64 4 57 5 183 22 40 j .. M. 59 43 191 35 F. 6 2 11 M. i F. ! 3 I .. 3 ; .. 12 J 4 5 I .. I 1,253 i 324 M. 10 2 F. I 3 ■• M. • M. F. I 3 J .. 1 j .. 113 J 26 j M. 13 24 50 11 F. 1 2 7 "" 262 7 I J j 1,745 306 Totals 2,140 1,730 170 523 1,678 648 33 1,189 112 4,174 769 6,790 764 6,223 423 1,295 19,274 17,194 2,080 209 23 12,801 I