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"has received

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many

complaints of the

" indicent state of this street. The first

Flours are a

blaze of light and _

" prostitutes look from every

window

"occasionally calling out and inviting

(papers by to enter! (Ibid) M. May

as

also describes this thoroughfare one "neceparily paped through boy Europeans ladies, and therefore "peculiarly unsuited for licensed

"brothels for Ruropeans?

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"Wellington Street, moreover

contains the chief place of worship

of a large Roman Catholis community, the residence of the Roman Catholic

Bishop and a College for the exiccation

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of youth; and

there

grounds

alone

soas

undoubtedly entitled to exemption from

there houses. They would now seem

to have been all very properly removed

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A

to page 239 of the appendin

will be seen some minutes respecting

the fact that arxamination Room

Prostitutes had been placed in April 1888 exactly orporite to the French Convent in Queens Road

The Government Notification by which this was done is printed

1878. It is signed

in the Gazette for 1878

by Mt Acil C. Smith, as Acting

M.

Colonial Secretary, but though the records of the Colonial Secretary's

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