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APPENDIX A—continued. Return showing the Number of Offences reported, the Number of Offences for which Persons were apprehended or summoned, and Comparison of Crime during the Year ended 31st December, 1921, and Year ended 31st December, 1922— continued.

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1921. 1922. m 5 o I 0 "3 & o aft I 8 I o & ° a A £! 1! i-H a* 1 gass 7; Results of Oases in which PersonB were apprehended or summoned. (Charges against Males and Females separately.) Increase or Decrease in Number of Offences reported. Offences. Number of Convictions amongst those committed for Trial. Committed for Trial. M. F. M. F. I a ® "M. F. M. M. F. Police Offences Act— continued. Unlawfully using horses, motor-cars, &e. Sunday trading 175 1 80 57 1.58 57 1 138 34 138 3 15 1 34 18 r> . . 1 I Lβ 57 . . 57 Gaming Act. Common gaming-house, keeping or managing, &c. Found in a common gaming-house Gaming with instruments Publishing advertisements relating to betting on horse-races Lotteries, unlawfully establishing or conducting, &c. Retting, unlawful Following occupation of bookmaker .. Trespassing on racecourse Holding illegal race-meeting Loitering for betting purposes 13 15 129 3 20 32 42 118 3 22 32 42 114 3 22 27 39 102 3 17 27 1 4 .. 39 .. 3 .. 102 .. 12 .. 3 17 1 3 1 4 3 12 3 1 19 .. 27 .. II 2 .. 19 27 2 30 36 33 1 59 18 33 I 59 18 6 22 57 18 22 . . 5 .. 1 .. 57 I 1 .. I L> 5 1 1 2 3 .. 1 .. 3 1 23 18 23 .. 1 O 1 18 18 . . 1 Post and Telegraph Act. Posting packet containing explosive, &c. Illegally opening or delaying postal packets Stealing postal packets, mail-bags, &c. Stealing money, &c. from postal packets Receiving property sent by post and stolen Fraudulently secreting or detaining misdelivored mail-bags, &c. Injuring post-office pillars or boxes .. Making false declaration re postal packet Posting indecent matter .. .. J Obtaining postal packet by false pretences Personating postal officer Damaging telegraph insulators 1 25 16 10 8 (i 18 7 1 1 3 (i 18 7 1 1 0 15 3 1 3 2 3 1 1 1 3 15 2 1 2 ' 19 2 .. 3 1 . . 1 .. 2 2 1 1 r> 6 2 5 2 6 2 5 2 i 0 1 3 2 1 1 .. 2 .. 1 2 1 2 4 1 1 .. 2 .. 12 1 1 1 1 1 .. 12 1 Destitute Persons Act. Failing to maintain wife or children .. Failing for fourteen days to pay main-tenance-moneys Offences by husbands while separation orders are in force Offences prescribed in sections 52 to 58 of Destitute Persons Act 1,437 1,310 30 1,422 1,300 17 1,250 1,185 17 952 949 10 18 17 275 214 1 II 5 15 I .1 44 .. 19 44 8 0 6 5 1 2 Shipping and Seamen Apt. Misconduct endangering his ship or lives of persons thereon Ship-desertion Absent without leave Offences against discipline . . Embezzling cargo Stowing away 41 95 12 Iβ 81 1 30 37 7 13 32 1 28 33 7 12 32 1 25 30 7 11 32 3 3 1 .. 11 58 5 3 49 1 1 Licensing Act. Permitting drunkenness or violent conduct Selling or supplying liquor to intoxicated persons Permitting gaming, gambling, &e. Selling or supplying liquor, or exposing for sale, or opening or keeping open premises at unauthorized times Supplying liquor to persons under twenty-one years Selling or supplying liquor to prohibited persons Permitting prohibited persons to be on premises Unlawfully employing females in or about a bar 37 40 5 325 L13 1,8 20 1 :sr.i 47 18 20 1 351 45 0 17 1 154 27 1 23 3 12 (J 100 15 2 8 19 14 4 20 .. 66 26 37 38 38 30 8 1 .. 1 3 3 3 3 8 4 4 2 1 ] 4