Table VI is a return of boy juvenile offenders brought before the Hong Kong and Kowloon Magistrates' Courts during the year 1933 giving their ages, the offences committed by them and sentences imposed.
Table VII is a return of girl juvenile offenders, giving information similar to that in table VI.
Table VIII gives the number of writs issued from the two Magistracies during the years 1932 and 1933.
Table IX is an abstract of all cases brought before the Hong Kong and Kowloon Magistrates' Courts during the last ten years. The figures of defendants who were convicted and cautioned are now shown separately. Prior to 1933, they were included in the figures under the "discharged" column.
Table X shows the work done by the Magistrates sitting as Coroners.
GENERAL.
The Juvenile Offenders Ordinance, No. 1 of 1932, was brought into force by Proclamation No. 6 of 20th November, 1933, and thus only operated for six weeks. During that period the cases of 205 boys and 56 girls were considered. The present temporary lack of a Remand Home for girls and of an Industrial School somewhat hampered the working of this Ordinance, but in view of the differences of conditions prevailing here and in England (for this Ordinance is based on English law) it is undoubtedly wise to proceed with caution until experience of the best method of administering the Ordinance has been gained.
Proceedings were taken under the Extradition Acts against two persons, and under the Fugitive Offenders Act against one person, for crimes committed outside the Colony. Of the two former, one was committed to prison to await the order of H.E. the Governor and the other was discharged. The latter was also discharged.
Summonses under the Married Women (Desertion) Ordinance, 1905, in Hong Kong numbered three as against three in 1932. In each case an order was made. In Kowloon these summonses numbered six as against eight in 1932. In one of them an order was made.
31st March, 1934.
E. W. HAMILTON, First Police Magistrate.