205
11.
122
is not low, the
the Indian supply value to Hon. The consumers would
it would use this opium
obtain the supply from Yau Ma Tei in Kowloon or elsewhere. They would
not take alcohol or some other narcotic instead. In the event of obtaining
opium elsewhere, they would obtain it together.
ua.
If the Opium
trade was
extinguished, the people in this Colony
would have nothing to say against the law, but the deficit could not, however, be easily made good from
any
other source.
I have
some knowledge of
opium
14.
16.
users in this Colony. The Asiatics severally contract the habit
from inducements put before
them, from social or business
intercourse or from constant smoking
for social or business purposes, and sometimes on account of illness. It is no remedy against
rheumatism or used as a food against malaria.
Severe
dislike, unless prompted by necessity. There was in the beginning such feeling among
the Chinese. I
believe such feeling does not now exist.