CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12] — Page 492

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"The complaint has been repeated "and over again, and always against boensed "ancelativunted prestiticks. Get it a

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"notorious fact that up to date share " are scoreal houses licensed of prostituction.

very

"ise Wellington Street, swe of which at

short distance of our institutions. as He us and ur. Will they plead also here the absence of legal powers?

I have Ac

(Signed) Sgn Borga;

Mips: Up and Secretory"

13.

Upon

this

you

live

asked for your report of the

explanation, and in augh of Novembow 187jj

you

then for

the frict time admitted that there were at that moment six rusidences

of prostitutes in Wellington Strut

duly licenced

by your

Gepartment Kwether

enguing clicited the while truth and it

1005

asurtained that the total number

of hained prostitute in Wellington Shot

19th of November 1877 (tte det of

the

she discussion in the Legislative Count

amoun

Aid

houses was

Ac

theeky

wither

there, one

of there boensed.

forty yards of St. Saview's bollege and the residinn of Bichop. Haimordi

In one of the letters relating to

ton Street scandal, a reference

14.

this Wellington

was mad. to the fact that the place chosen for the cxamination of forestitut s

wuder the Contagious Fixares Ordisinver

house exactly opposite to a long

tva s

established Roman battube Convent and boarding school in the Queen's Road, and

that this boathrame

had been

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