### 16. The tables show a very heavy decline in almost every item of revenue, totalling $65,000 in Hong Kong and $19,000 in Kowloon. As against this, exchange fluctuations and various economies made possible a reduction of expenditure of $18,000 in Hong Kong. Collection of fines inflicted for obstructions and breach of traffic regulations proved unusually difficult.
17. In table IV the following subheads show increases of significance: simple larceny, currency offences, dangerous drug offences, returning from banishment, banishment, and street hawkers' offences, the last of which almost doubled in number: decreases are shown in opium offences, brothel-keeping and procuration, gambling, obstruction, dangerous driving, and offences in relation to dogs. In Kowloon, obstruction and dangerous driving show increases, and hawker offences show only a small increase.
18. 1935 was the first year in which remand homes for both boys and girls were in full operation. The opening of the Aberdeen Industrial School in April helped to fill a serious gap in the machinery for dealing with juveniles, and so far the results shown have been almost uniformly good. While Kowloon had a very large increase of juvenile offenders, chiefly hawkers, Hong Kong's increase was insignificant, although one penalty, caning in court, was inflicted in only 12 cases.
19. Very good work throughout the year was done by the probation officers attached to the courts, who investigated personally and reported on almost every juvenile case, besides following up cases of juveniles bound over and on probation.
8th April, 1936.
W. SCHOFIELD, First Police Magistrate.