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therein contained being somewhat
meagre,
I have, with the view
ascertaining whether or not there
has been
of
a an increase in the number
of offenace brought to the notice of
the Police, and of convictions, during
the past ten
years,
had some
additional tabular statements prepared which will be found enclosed.
These returns are divided into two
quinquennial periods, in the last years of each of which
a census was
taken of the population of the Colony. The Census of 1881 it will be remembered
shewed
167
1kAugust, 1882.
shewed,
an increase
of 15 per sent.
An examination of
these tabular statements shews the
following results. The total number of offences of all Kinds reported to the Police
during the two quinquennial periods has been 35,621 in the first
period and 33,463 in the second
a decrease in the latter
cent, no allowance
allowance being
of
or
6.05 per
being made for
the increase of the population. If
however offenees
are divided into
serious and minor in the mode_
in
adopted in
the annual Police reports,
it
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