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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, 1922, and Year ended 31st December, 1923— continued.

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SS u a 9 o n & o a ® 55 1922. CO 9 9 a 9 i o * . •~>r> O CD U f (D U II s fi SO CO CO CO e " a Sh ° o a >_>£ a M 1 « L. CO a o „ ® 7. Itesu Its of Cases in which Persons were apprehonded or summoned, trges against Males and Females separately.) 1923. Increase or Decrease in Number of Offences reported. (Cha Nunil Convii among! comm forT ber of ctions st those .itted 'rial. Oifences. I IComr j for r lifted Summarily 'rial. convicted. P. M. I P. Dismissed. M. F. fj 9 u. *n 9 V S 1 3 t s M. M. F. Gaming Act. Common gaming-house, keeping or managing, &c. Found in a common gaming-house . . (laming with instruments Publishing advertisements relating to betting on horse-races Lotteries, unlawfully establishing or conducting, &c. Betting, unlawful Trespassing on racecourse (■ambling un a train Following occupation of bookmaker . . Holding illegal race meeting 32 42 118 3 22 lo 129 51 8 79 10 129 51 8 79 2 10 115 50 41 1 14 I 8 32 87 5 57 22 07 33 59 84 75 3 84 71 3 4 01 07 3 4 16 51 10 3 I 18 "l 18 Post and Telegraph Aot. Posting packet containing explosive, &o. Illegally opening or delaying postal packets Stealing postal packets, mail-bags, Sc. Stealing money, &c, from postal packets Unlawfully opening mail-bags Receiving property sent by post and stolen Fraudulently secreting or detaining misdelivered mail-bags, &o. Injuring post-office pillars or boxes .. Obtaining postal packet by false pretenoes Damaging insulators False statement re posting postal packets Damaging telephone Personating Postal officer Posting indecent post-cards and letters Fraudulently using postage-stamps .. 3 0 IS 7 I I 20 45 7 3 18 42 7 3 13 19 7 1 2 3 21 2 1 1 4 19 7 1 14 27 3 ] 3 (i 2 7 3 3 1 2 21 2 1 21 2 1 1 1 20 1 1 1 I 21 2 1 1 5 2 5 2 5 2 5 I 3 5 Dkstitute Persons Aot. 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 1,422 1,360 17 1,627 1,040 20 1,502 1,505 18 1,072 1,320 14 15 5 415 180 4 205 280 3 0 9 5 1 4 3 Shipping and Seamen Act. Misconduct endangering his ship or lives of persons thereon Assaults by officers Ship-desertion Absent without leave Offences against discipline . . Embezzling cargo Harbouring deserters Stowing away I 30 37 7 13 11 1 80 22 93 13 2 41 11 1 49 II 93 12 2 41 11 1 49 11 93 II 1 41 10 1 50 15 1 80 32 i 2 9 Lioensino 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 18 20 1 351 12 17 2 476 12 17 2 476 0 10 1 199 1 1 34 5 5 1 207 36 1 1 125 6 9 47 92 92 40 5 40 45 38 41 41 37 1 3 3 3 1 1 1 2