Legislative authority to enable me,
· when it becomes expedient to do so,
member of The Police to prohibit any person not authorized by the Governor from meddling with any gaming establishment (street gambling only excepted), or receiving any benefit as informer; it nevertheless appears prudent at present to hang back, and see the result of abolition of the License system. It is in fact to let the Gamblers, if possible, show their hands first, and thereby clearly indicate what fresh powers, if any, are wanted by The Executive.
4. Meantime it is essential, if only to prevent scandal, that some control of an effective character be maintained over the practice of the laws which a large portion of the Colony declare to be illegal. I also consider it but right to have that control, so far as Government can compass the point, vested in few hands, and to see that the persons having such powers be above all possible suspicion of corrupt or improper motives of any kind whatever.
I naturally therefore think of Messrs Smith and Deane, each trained in the language of the natives and educated specially to understand and appreciate their habits and character, whilst the one from his long experience