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which had been exposed at a
Coroner's Inquest in Actober, 18974% of
- employing paid informers,
ziven before my
was
arrival in the Colony,
do appears from the Registrar General's
As
Report; and it would further appear
from Mr Wodehouse's letter
of
the 10th
February, 1879/ copy of which I enclose) to February 1879.
that it was he and not the Governor
- who first stopped the practice of employing paid informers. After
full
search I
can
find
no trace
d
either in the Colonial Secretary's Office or in the Registrar General's department
of
of any
order given during the time I served under His Excellency, with
the view of stopping amy
abuses
connected with the Government
Brothel system; and the only occasion on which I took any part in
connection with these matters was
in the month of elbarch, 1879, when
I drew up some instructions for the guidance of the Inspectors of Brothels who appeared to me to be paralyzed for want of some simple and tangible directions. I submitted these in draft for His Excellency's
consideration
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