# CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES.
## Table 111.
### ABSTRACT of CASES under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' Courts during the Year 1921.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER of Male and FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES. TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS. Convicted and Punished. Discharged, Committed for Trial at the Supreme Court. Committed to Prison or Detained pending Orders of H.E. the Governor. Ordered to find Security. To keep the Peace. To be of Good Behaviour. Assaults and other offences against the person, Malicious injuries to property, Gambling, 515 608 262 65 137 24 161 7 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, 589 2,534 2,354 31 144 5 ... ... Offences against Masters and Servants Acts, including Acts relating to indentured coolies,... 281 21 53 ... ... ... ... ... Other offences, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Total, 17,374 22,138 18,726 695 2,247 151 86 8## WHITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR.
M. F. Summons, for Defendants. 11,072 376 Summons for Witnesses. 921 318 Notices of Re-hearing. 30 ... Warrants. 7,956 3 Arrest. ... ... Distress. ... ... Search. ... ... For entering Gambling Houses. ... ... Magistrates' Orders. ... ... TOTAL. 22,138 ...### TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,
* Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.