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Most of the old offenders have cleared off and
fresh contingents now arrive. There are now eleven
warrants out, some remaining from the previous year,
and nine committals waiting for them upon their
return. Offenders were caught in two cases and had
to pay the following penalties:—
Encamping on Granville Avenue, £5 and costs.
Do. Cumberland Road, £3 and costs.
One party of offenders on being arrested, and
who had changed their name, declared they had not
been in the district before; but upon my taking off
the name plate from the van, the proper name was
found on the back of it.
These people still cause an enormous amount of
work and worry, and seem to be monarchs of all they
survey. The conditions under which they live are
demoralising. Their offspring being brought up without
education, renders them as a class a source of
contamination to all with whom they mingle throughout
the District. Filthiness and bad overcrowding are
two of their distinguishing characteristics.
In a few isolated cases they are clean, but their
healthiness must be attributed to Nature's disinfectant,
fresh air; without which the danger to the Public
Health from them would be intolerable.
Why these people are allowed to roam the country
and be a constant source of annoyance to respectable
citizens, wholly passes my comprehension.