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production, exported from this country in the first six months of the year, distinguishing the various countries
to which these exports were consigned.
For the purpose of the present investigation no im-
portance need, of course, be attached to the exports
of Foreign and Colonial produce, which, as will be
seen, consist of Cocaine only. As regards the Morphia
and Cocaine of British production no complete informa-
tion has been obtainable with regard to the names of the
exporting firms or the quantities exported by each, and
in the absence of such information it is impossible to
make any definite statement as to the extent of the
manufacture of the drugs in question in the United King-
dom.
The Board have, however, reason to supose that the
mamufacture of both products in this country is in the
hands of comparatively few firms most of whom are of
high repute, and, so far as they can judge from inter-
views which they have had with representatives of some
of these firms, the British manufacturing interests
would welcome any International Agreement for preventing
the