In one of Melbourne’s former “ China Towns,” Little JBourke Street., the haunt of opium eaters and thieves the police Court has “gone out of business.” Some years ago, it. was not an uncommon record for one policeman to arrest an average of 900 persons per year. Now that the gampling halls and opium dens have been replaced by factories, the whole of the police staff does not arrest an average of 700 persons per year between them. Formerly prison cells weie filled to overflowing, but of late years there has been spacious accommodation for any inmates. So for the sake of economy the Little Bourfce Street prison has been closed and the reformed “ underworld ” boasts respectability.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4579, 27 June 1923, Page 2
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