Sendul
in which the Polire Force had
heavily bribed
of relying
on
R. Graves
to
uny
un
free had be
brought to light. The impossitiliy
the Police leat the gour, then under
Man Donnell, to the decision, that the
combat illegal gambling was to
licause
recognise
certain gaming houses. This was
it Cecil Smitte
papers.
ell
in
Volumes or I do not
send them
The repression of gambling was then "In Cecil Smith, Registrar
Police,
who
were
the
entrusted
t
311 and Mr Deane, Head of the
sided by Chinese Jetectives, &
Reports they submitted
show that they were,
or
at least thought they were, succesful..
amount of the
in 1869
the
and
A
license-money (about $200,000
I This state of affairs continued till 1880 when
summ) paid
enormous profit's made in
the
licenses
it a
could
the
the amount
which
bebery.
The licensees, did
1
in their own internt,
all in their power to help
to suppress
unlicensed
Carequently
glaring froop
gambling-houses and
be dewter to
Sir J. Pope Hennessy apponited
a
Commission to
gambling which
What
tactically eradicated pro time, & in checking crime
the system apparently worked well.
legislation of this kind, doing evil that good cin' aroused great indignation in England & the Colousy, of in the early days of 1872 it was ally abandoned.
ily commission held to inquire into the state of the Police
whatever laws should be enacted.
that
ongly urged
the future suppression of gambling the general body of
concerned in any way with their administation
Police should out be
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enquire into gambling. That Commission "never
formally reported [their views will be found
in luck 2 on 10811/83] but they recommended
the abolition of the existing systeem, the control
of gambling by the Police, and they rather
pookpooked it's magnitude of the greatness of
the Colony.
the danger
L
In 1883 Sir J. P. Hennessy issued
Jau
titive allowed
that it
au
Order to
let the Chinese gamble in Pence'; while her
was probable at the that the Chinese police were bribed by gambling-
houses?
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