CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 19

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for its consolidation), as a permanent and beneficials Colony

10 far as regards population is the administration of Police . The evils, which have "bstucted, its earlier progress

have been those connected with

the Police and I am convinced

Jam,

that the perment great corrupter of the efficiency of the Force

is

the swishing gambling co :ystem . If in my previous Lotter on this subject of dealt with the advantages to result from the licensing of gambling chiefly in a financials point of view I did so because having

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carefully perused the antion

documents on the subjecte

subjent I thought

that the grounds other than the) financial ones had been a breads/ fully gonvents but I should very much regst that the Liver

Beens.

sing of Bambling should

beslooked su pon solely

or even

principally as as money question .

revenue

Connected with revenue it an

il

necessary

must be because)

otherwise as hamsing system will be inoperative but the real objects to be attained are the almost completes reductions of the dangerous plasses within an areon where theyrans be at

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