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great
gambling of all kinds, and facility of supervision is undoubtedly given through the centring during
years in
the past years
a few well-known places the haunts of gamblers
4. The fact that the Police are still prohibited from devoting themselves to detecting illicit continues the subject of discussion
in some of the Colonial journals, but no new matter is adduced, argument considered. It is easy to say that the Chinese detectives now employed are, if known, as likely to be bribed as part of their legitimate duties. That argument, however, is insufficient, because after all, experience alone can decide what parties are most easily corrupted, and it has hitherto taught that the Police Force became easily and grievously corrupt owing primarily and chiefly to the bribes freely given to its members for conniving at public gaming in certain houses. Those houses were the resort and shelter of many of the worst of the Criminals liable to infect the Colony. Nevertheless, instead of turning all their energies to suppress crime, which in its various forms is rife in the
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