Table IV.
RETURN of PUNISHMENTS awarded in respect of Certain Classes of OFFENCES, during the Year 1920.
PUNISHMENTS. Assaults and other offences against the person. Malicious injuries to property. Gambling. Offences against property other than malicious injuries to property or predial larceny. Offences against Revenue Acts, Highway Acts, Health Acts, and other Acts relating to the social economy of the colony. Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts relating to indentured coolies. Other offences. Description. Number of each kind inflicted. Fines, 13,335 213 16 1,641 138 2,408 8,915 Imprisonment in lieu of fine or security, 879 34 34 70 440 296 Peremptory Imprisonment, 1,920 81 tr 1,106 20 411 Whipping, 147 1 7 90 40 Solitary Confinement,.. 1 Exposed in Stocks, 42 Sentenced to House of Detention, 23 7 16 Bound over with or without Sureties, 75 73 4 1 7 Juvenile Offenders' Prison, 27 1 22 2 TOTAL. 16,458 402 24 1,682 1,779 2,920 9,6476 H