_The Evening Post_, 23 June 1924:
         TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
SIR ROBERT STOUT’S RECORD
            AS CHIEF JUSTICE
     INTERESTING INTERVIEW
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                    AUCKLAND, This Day.
  Sir Robert #Stout completed a quarter of a century as Chief Justice yesterday. In an interview, he expressed the opinion that the people of New Zealand are now better behaved than they used to be. There was certainly an improvement, which was reflected in the diminution of serious crimes that were formerly prevalent.… The war, like other wars, was responsible for a mental effect upon the people, and the temporary outbreak of #crime was not unexpected, but he thought the wave was passing now.
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EVILS OF GAMBLING AND DRINK
  “There are several evils in our midst; one is #gambling and another is drink… If we could get rid of gambling and drink, we could get rid of at least one-third of our crime; but our people apparently do not think so, and the responsibility rests on them.”
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_The Evening Post_, 22 June 1923:
       MAGISTRATE’S COURT
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  For selling #liquor on a Sunday, John Douglas M‘Kechnie, the licensee of the Thistle Inn Hotel, and Arthur Pike, a porter, were each fined £10 [ca. $1,200 today] and costs. John Casey, Thomas Hodges, and August William Stafford, who had been found on the premises, were each fined £2 [ca. $240] and costs. The Magistrate said that the case was of a serious nature, and if the licensee appeared before the Court again, the question of endorsing his license would have to be considered.
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