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Commons pater "headed" Hong Kong & amking Houses" isuck in 1869 I finns at p. 17 that there sums have been eithed by

an average of 14,631

daily Asiatic Visitors to there "Hills"

being

aggregate of execeding

10,000,000 Asiahi Visitors within

these tive

years 1867 and 1863.

But

"seeing that the system will shortly

have been in operation for four

years instead of tas

years

figures may be doubled to

the above

be doubled to represent

the full extent of gambling in this Colony giving

an

aggregate of over

four millions won at Bambling-

the Bamblers and over

twenty

millions of Visitors in four years.

Know no parallel for the

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of Crime and suffering which these figures represent except possibly im Macas, in character but not in ixtenċ.

In Hong thory with a population of less than 125,000 there are

widely

scattered in different quarters of

Colony fiftten Licensed and open Gaming Houses -

the

I've Paris there were in the worst

times only eight such Houses. In int of the notorious Serman resorts

there

each town and resident, natie, me usually, I believe everywhere, prohibited by fensities from playing. - There the rich only - here Acinties alone

are seldom more than one in