CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12] — Page 334

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the objects intended to be effected by the Licensing of Gaming within

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; its present limits, could have been

obtained

in

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by some less unpleasant

The system

great

purpose,

:system has certainly

effected its

and it was

was owing to the great decrease of Crime and to the improved merate and strength of the Police Force that His Excellency the Licitenant Governer with the advice of the Executive Council, recently proposed, subject to the.. approval of Her Majesty's Government, to close the Gaming Houses and make

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Cotarely

to try one

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:ffort to get on without them. Yet the Chief Justice insists that

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the increase, and that the

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were never so un

Crime is on.

Police

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Justice

buistworthy

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These Statements of the Chief

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however in conflict with

the Public Retrians of Crime in the

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Colony, and as for the accusations of

untrustworthiness" which he so frequently brings against the Police Force, I can only say that they

unsupported by any Evidence whation

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and that so

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judge, they.

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I take this opportunity of

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- returning herewith the Chief Justice letter of the 8th of August lost, and the Draft Ordinance enclosed therein to which he refers in his present

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