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of any mischievous attempts to injure the Colony, and thus all the tendency to opposition would be nipped in the bud through the knowledge we should obtain from Police, who though paid by the licensed Farmer, should be selected by the Government. I am perfectly certain that the general Gambling that now prevails, and which is winked at, and tacitly permitted by the Police, who must necessarily receive heavy bribes to screen delinquents, would be materially put down in the way I mention; moreover, the interest of the Farmer would assist in preventing gambling in other than his own licensed houses. The Revenue derivable from this source is another grave consideration; from this consideration, it should be made wholly for the benefit of the Colony and however intricate the question may be, and opposed to our Home feelings, I should say we must, whilst deliberating on this important question, exclude English ideas so totally inapplicable when it becomes desirable and judicious to frame rules adapted to a race being so totally at variance with our own. The Chinese should be governed and indulged as far as may be practicable in accordance with

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of any mischievous attempts to injure the Colony, and thus all the tendency to opposition would be nipped in the bud through the knowledge we should obtain from Police, who though paid by the licensed Farmer, should be selected by the Government. I am perfectly certain that the general Gambling that now prevails, and which is winked at, and tacitly permitted by the Police, who must necessarily receive heavy bribes to screen delinquents, would be materially put down in the way I mention; moreover, the interest of the Farmer would assist in preventing gambling in other than his own licensed houses. The Revenue derivable from this source is another grave consideration; from this consideration, it should be made wholly for the benefit of the Colony and however intricate the question may be, and opposed to our Home feelings, I should say we must, whilst deliberating on this important question, exclude English ideas so totally inapplicable when it becomes desirable and judicious to frame rules adapted to a race being so totally at variance with our own. The Chinese should be governed and indulged as far as may be practicable in accordance with Page 240 Page 241
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