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allowed one on
in
may
only neually exists. That as I have fully expressed
Letter to you of the 8th August
ures contained
last I deduce from the figures
in official returns bez His Excellemay
the Governor that over,
in two years only before the Licences
wow
es were
$5,000,000, were
by Gamblers
uped the
recouped
amount paid by them for their Licences, that at least an equal sun was won from them making the total over $10,000,000, and that it is to be. presumed that the Gambling Lianoas gained as much as they paid the
Government in order to cover their expenses and to pay thein a profit for their disreputable trade. The
qu
amount must therefore be doubled and
$ 20.000.000. has it would seem
-over
been lost and won a
across the Gaming
Tables of Hang Hong within the two- first years of the Licensing system. From like data if the Tables are.
open for 4 days in the wish Icalculate that Asiatics have made over 10,000,000,
of visits to these Houses within two years. There may be errors in these calculations but under any calculation a mass of Gambling is represented unequalled according to population any where destructive to the honest labours of the Gamblers and with:- -drawing from time to time these large amounts from legitimate trade and -