3 explains the plan, which you wish carried out in the future allotment of Licenses for the Gaming monopoly, and so far as those instructions go there need be little difficulty giving them immediate effect, for the present system has been brought to such a complete working order that changes in the Licenses, if made suddenly, are likely to be much less prejudicial to the Public interests now than at an earlier period.
8. Your Lordship's despatches under reply further proceed to point out the only purposes to which the Special fund is in future to be applied. There can be no difficulty in carrying out those instructions also so long as the contribution in aid of Police Expenditure be fixed as now arranged.
I am glad to notice that in Your Lordship's despatch No. 165 you agree with me that no trustworthy calculation can be made of the amount of Police Expenditure which may be reasonably chargeable to the License Fund employed in the control of Gambling, and for that reason Your Lordship acquiesces in the contribution of $50,000 though somewhat arbitrary.
4. As Your Lordship supposes, an accurate calculation might lead to a result "not acceptable" to this Government, and I apprehend a difficulty in GR1178/1922/32(III).
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