Watton & vigilant audit have met assent & the expenditure is being started under Extension and "improvement of the god
I cannot suppose there will be any serious difficulty in providing $2500 out of the Current Revenue & we shall be glad to find that this course has been further considered by the Governor.
No. 12. Kuinn Date 17 June 1893 I
Last previous Paper. Shait 8819 P.I.O.
Cons 25 Aug 52:17 Apr 94 276-31 Hongkong 12527
(Subject.) Registration of Brothels.
DESPATCH. 127 Rec'd & Rep. 26 Jul 1893
Jerwards documento, arguing reconsideration of proposed abolition (Minutes)
PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT: H.C.144. June 1894 W. Braunstein 78879
See also Straits 7922, 8818 which have been waiting for this reply from Hongkong. (The delay in dealing with this is due to my keeping it with the paper on cognate subject the Po Leung Kuk with explanation why I could not send it on sooner).
I have carefully read these papers & much previous correspondence on the subject, with the result that I am more than ever convinced that the Registration of Brothels & their inmates, besides being objectionable on moral...