Including 7 cases under the Money-lenders Act, 1900.

In addition to the above prosecutions there were 1,622 applications in respect of criminal, or alleged criminal, offences on which the Director did not
In this number were included applications relating to Extradition Cases
institute proceedings, but in some of which he appeared or gave advice or assistance.
and Appeals to Quarter Sessions, and also miscellaneous matters, the latter being chiefly received from other Government Departments.

Thirteen (against sentence only) were left to
The Director received applications in 96 Appeals by convicted persons to the Court of Criminal Appeal.
the Court, and he appeared for the Crown in 83; in 50 of these the Appeals were dismissed, in 19 cases the convictions were quashed, in 13 the sentences
were reduced, and 1 case was returned to Quarter Sessions for prisoner to plead again.

There were 85 applications to the Director for his consent to persons being charged as Habitual Criminals under Section 10 (4) (a) of the Prevention of
Crime Act, 1908. Consent was granted in 48 cases, and convictions followed in 32 for the offence charged and for being an Habitual Criminal (of this number,
7 being sentenced to a term of Preventive Detention for a second time), in 11 cases the prisoner was convicted of the offence charged, but acquitted as being an
Habitual Criminal, and in 5 cases the accused person was convicted of felony, but not tried on the charge of being an Habitual Criminal. In 2 cases the
Of the applications for his consent
prisoner was convicted for a second time of being an Habitual Criminal, but was not sentenced to Preventive Detention.

refused by the Director, 11 of such refusals were in cases where the prisoner had been previously convicted as an Habitual Criminal, but in which, as it appeared that the accused had been in honest employment or had made real efforts to obtain it, the circumstances were such as to render a charge of being an Habitual Criminal unsuitable or impossible.

POLICE RETURNS.

NOTES TO THE TABLES.

Table XVI.

(a) Column 1, " Offences."-The titles of the offences are the same as in Tables I to III.

(b) Column 2, "Number of Crimes known to Police."-This column includes all crimes reported to the police or otherwise coming to their knowledge within the year whether committed by the same or different persons, and whether any apprehension takes place within the year or not.

(c) If there is a committal or conviction within the year, the Table shows the nature of the crime as judicially determined. Failing this, the charge which is named in the summons or warrant or on which the prisoner is arrested is taken as determining the crime. If there are no proceedings and no apprehension, the character of the crime is judged by the facts so far as known to the police.

(d) In Columns 3 to 12 the number of persons proceeded against is given, not the number of crimes or charges. A person charged at the same time with several offences appears as one person only. In selecting the offence for tabulation the same principle is followed as in Tables I to III-the charge resulting in conviction or committal for trial has preference to the others; and subject to this the more serious offence is selected. If there are two or more convictions, that for which the heavier sentence is inflicted is regarded as the more serious.

These columns include only cases disposed of by Courts of Summary Jurisdiction within the year. Cases pending at the end of the year are reserved for inclusion in the following year's Table.

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(e) Column 6, Discharged," contains cases where the magistrate does not assume power to try the case summarily, but discharges the accused under Section 25 of the Indictable Offences Act, 1848.

(f) Column 7, " Tried Summarily and Acquitted," contains cases where, after the magistrate has decided to deal summarily with the case, the charge is dismissed or withdrawn.

(g) The entries in Column 8 include the following cases :

(i) All cases dealt with under Sections 1 and 2 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907, i.e., cases where the charge is held to be proved, but the Court, without convicting, made an order dismissing the charge, or an order for the offender to enter into recognizances, or a probation order.

(ii) Children under 14 charged with indictable offences committed to Industrial Schools under Section 58 (2) and (3) of the Children Act, 1908.

(iii) Committals to custody of relatives and others made under Section 58 (7) of the Children Act, 1908, in the case of children charged with indictable offences, i.e., cases in which a committal to an Industrial School could be made under Section 58 (2) and (3) of the Children Act, 1908.

(iv) Persons sent to institutions for defectives or placed under guardianship under Section 8 (1) (b) of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, in cases where the Court finds the charge proved but does not proceed to a conviction.

(h) Column 10, "Committed for Trial and Detained," includes all persons committed to prison and places of detention to await trial, whether they are subsequently released on bail or not.

(i) Column 13 includes offences excluded from Columns 3 to 12 by the rule set forth in note (d) above, and also offences for which no proceedings were taken for various reasons.

Table XVII.

(j) The titles of the offences are the same as in Table VIII (B), and, as in that Table, only criminal proceedings are included.

(k) Notes (c) and (d) above apply to this Table.

(1) Note (g) above applies to entries in Column 6 of this Table, with the substitution of non-indictable offences for indictable offences.

Table XVIII.

(m) This Table gives for each Police District, firstly, the number of crimes of the nature of Indictable Offences reported within the year to the police as committed within the Police District, and secondly, the corresponding figures for Non-Indictable Offences: but as no figures of the number of such offences committed or reported to the police can be given, the number of persons proceeded against is quoted. In other words the upper section gives the distribution in Police Districts of the figures in Column 2 of Table XVI, and the lower sections the distribution in Police Districts of the figures in Column 2 of Table XVII.

The italic figures following the name of each Police District in the headings of the columns show the population on 19th June, 1921, of the Police District as constituted on 31st December, 1923.