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of the Opium Farmer, and again on the 3rd November, 1908 the same
representative of this Government with Kr. 0. Hoggarth, as
representative of the Opium Farmer, reported the results of
investigations made by them under directions from this Government,
into the methods of licencees under Ord. No.15 of 1908. In view
of their reports it was decided at a meeting of Executive Council
on the 12th of last February that six of the licences granted
should be cancelled forthwith for breach of the conditions under
which they were issued, and that all the other licences should
terminate on the 28th February 1910. There remain at the present
time only 18 licensees: and these were all informed on the 23rd
of last February that their licences would be cancelled on the
28th of next February.
On the lat March 1910 Ord. 23 of 1909 will come into
operation, and under section 51 of that Ordinance the licensing
authority will be the Principal Civil Medical Officer, the total
number of licences "for importing for sale or use within the
"Colony, preparing, manufacturing, or dealing in morphine and
"compounds of opium and the conditions of such licences" being
determined by regulations to be made by the Governor in Council.
It is proposed to grant only a very small number of such licences
and to impose such conditions as will make it impossible for the
drug to be used for other than legitimate medical purposes.
The check on the illegitimate use of morphine will,
therefore, in future be, not an exorbitant royalty which, if
collected, would make the cost of medicines containing morphine
prohibitive, but the restriction of the grant of licences to deal
in morphine locally to a few reputable Chemists and Druggists
under the immediate control and supervision of the Medical Officers
of the Government.
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