tance to the
a revenue
of great importance to the Colony both from a financial point of view and otherwise, that I desire to defer expressing a final opinion about it until I have had further time to consider it in all its bearings. As at present advised I see very serious objections to attempting to substitute for the farming system any other method of collecting revenue from opium, and I do not consider...
Enclosure: 26th July, 1892
with two enclosures
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I consider the present number of licensed smoking divans is not at all in excess of legitimate requirements. On this branch of the subject, I refer to a report by the Registrar General, and to the returns therein referred to.
I take this opportunity of informing Your Lordship that a convenient searching house has been provided at the cost of the Government as suggested in the despatch of the Secretary of State.
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