Appendix H.
REPORT OF THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON MAGISTRACIES
FOR THE YEAR 1939,
HONG KONG.
Mr. R. A. D. Forrest was First Police Magistrate from the 1st January to the end of the year.
Mr. R. Edwards was Second Police Magistrate from the 1st January to the end of the year.
Mr. T. J. Houston was Third Police Magistrate from the 1st January to the end of the year.
The number of cases was 29,779 as compared with 38,612 in 1938.
KOWLOON.
2. Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen was First Police Magistrate from the 1st January to the end of the year.
Mr. E. Himsworth was Second Police Magistrate from the 1st January to the end of the year.
The number of cases was 27,666 as compared with 34,181 in 1938.
GENERAL.
3. Table I shows the expenditure of the two magistracies for the years 1938 and 1939 including the cost of all officers in the departments who belong to the Cadet, Senior Clerical and Accounting, and Junior Clerical Services.
4. Table II shows the collections of the two magistracies for the same years.
5. Table III shows their revenue and expenditure for the last ten years in comparative form.
6. Table IV gives an abstract of cases under cognizance of the Magistrates' Courts during the years 1938 and 1939 in comparative form. The number of offenders previously convicted who were sentenced during the year is shown and the number of offenders who were placed under police supervision in addition to their sentences is given. Orders made for confiscation of unmanifested cargo, etc. are also shown.
7. Table V is an analysis of the "convicted and sentenced" column in table IV showing the penalties inflicted under each of the seven main heads of crime in the table. The number of offenders previously bound over whose bonds have been enforced on committing a breach of the conditions of the bonds is also shown.