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portion of the native population engaged in

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"business, and amongst the native employés of Fouign Firme dina the above resolution

Memorialists, was passed the opinion of your then expressed, has been stringthened by the experience of the past three yeaw, instance having occurred among servants of Foreigners, where they have been quilty of dishonesty, the origin of which was clearly traceable to the temptation held out by the Faming stoves licenad by Government.

The adivcates of licenced gambling endeavour, to make out that it has been the means

of decreasing crime in this Colony, but this alow

Memorialisto respectfully

is not proven, in their opinion the decrease urge in crime is attributable to other causes such as improved legislation, alterations in modes of punishment adopted towards criminals tẹ and that none of the decrease in crime is attributable to the licencing of gambling - moxover your dumerialists of opinion that were the system abandoned a still

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further decrease of crime in the Colony, madd be observable - Statements have also bun fut forward as arguments in favour of the sistem that it is impossible to eradicate gambling entirely from among the lover alais of shinis, your demoralists, while admitting that it is impossible to at once radicate and suppress the vice, submit most respectfully to your Lordshin that there is a

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perhaps than in any Ostory of the came siz under the British brown, and that

by the adoption of vigorous measuis it is quite competent for this force at once to in the yeasties repress the vice of gambling to such an a extent that it could only be carried on

in secret haunts which could be resorted to by none but the dreop of the population, respectable chincse being afraid to venture into such piaces, and that with continud

on the part of the "poia,

even these

energy secret haunts prouid one

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One be broken

/ up so that in cause of time gambling

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