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No protest was made by the local chemists against Ord. No.10 of 1904 because, as was explained in a letter dated the 20th June 1907, addressed by Messrs. A.b.Watson & Go. to the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, the definitions in the Ordinance "were so loosely drawn that Chemists and Druggista were auocess- "fully able to take up the position that the Ordinance did not "apply to morphia or to imported Patented Medicines containing "oither opium or morphia”. But as soon as Ordinance No.15 of 1906 became law, Messrs. J.D.Humphreys & Son, on behalf of A.S. Watson & Co. interviewed the then Acting Colonial Secretary
Mr. Sercombe Smith, on the matter and were advised by him not to take
however, they considered that their compliance
any action.
AS,
in this respect might subsequently be construed into a waiver of their objection, they wrote to Mr. Sercombe Smith under date of 22nd November 1906 asking exemption from the Prepared Opium Ord. for a long list of preparations sold by them, which contained
pium
or its alkaloids, classified under six schedules, viz. (a) "official", i.e. British Phamacopeia preparations: (b) unofficial, but often prescribed or asked for and therefore kept in stock: (c) medicines of which the firm of Burroughs Welcome & Co. were the owners: (d) medicines imported from Europe or America: (e) medicines prepared locally; (f) medicines sold locally, already exempted from the operation of the Prepared Opium Ordinance. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. F.H.May, replied on the 15th March 1907 that all the medicines in schedule (c) had been exempted by the Governor in Council as well as seven other medicines mentioned by name.
Messrs. A.S.Watson & Co. being dissatisfied with this reply, as the great majority of the medicines mentioned in their list had not been exempted, requested the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce to take up the matter and on the 19th September 1907
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