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on a
subject which, though
it has occupied
on numerous
occasions the attention of
many of my
has
never,
Predecessors,
I venture to say,
been satisfactorily coped with, I refer to the suppression of Gambling amongst the Chinese and the consequent prevention of corruption amongst the Police Force.
2.
Thirty years ago
it was well known and was
reported to your Department,
that
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that the efficiency of the
Police
was
greatly impaired
by the corruption of the Force caused by its members receiving pay from the Gambling Hongs in consideration of which the Police either sheltered the Gamblers by not reporting their misdoings to the Captain Superintendent of Police or gave notice to the gamblers of every intended raid on their Gambling Hongs.
3.