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probably be so worked as to do all that is reasonably possible to put down unregistered brothels or rather to make compulsory registration reality

in all casesJ.

also dealt with in the

a

and

The subject of gambling is

petition address. It is unfortunate that those documents are not accompanied some definite reference to the fasts upon which the conclusions put. forward

are based such an

would be most valuable.

appendixe

I have also read Captain Deane's suggestions pointing out the particulars in which he considers the law to be at present defective,

and

and the remedies that he would propose.

If it is thought right to endeavour to put down the reoping of

in

geming houses and the dealing lotteries by penal enactments, Captain Deane's suggestions indicate the direction in which legislation is necessary; and after considering them in connection with the existing law, I have prepared a draft Ordinance

which would, I think, do what

legislation can do to carry

My

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them out.

own view is that

already the machinery of the criminal law and the police force are far too extensively resorted to for the purpose

of putting down gambling

and

lotteries.