TABLE
IT.
Opium Prepared in Hongkong.
Chests drawn by, the Farmer for boiling.
During
Year! Patna. Benares. Persian. Chinese. Total Chests.
1907
605
79
41
1908
802
725 664
1909
960
1,044
1910
771
782
1911 1
068
100
761
3.796 179
47
154
4,176
Sales of Prepared Opium etc., during the year 1911 from 1st. January to at. December inclusive.
Local Consumption.
Prepared Opium.
Dross Opium.
.666,135,055 taels. .105,777,000
#
W
Native or Persian Opium.. 8,768,200
Prepared Opium exported by Opium Farmer during:-
1910.... 127,900 taels from March 31st. 1910. 1911...... 52,700
180,600
Full details for the working of the Farm are
not available till 1911. One chest of i atna
Upium produces roughly 1,100 taels of i repared Opium.
TABLE III.
ORPH I A.
Sixgorts. lbs. oz.
yeurs.
Imports. lbs. 02.
ocal Consumption.
lbs.
02.
alence from 1906
2.325.1
1907
1908
9,694.10 7,053. 7
$,469
9,129.2
1969
7.410.
7,235
1910
1911
6,692. 9 4,082. 4
037
FOO 2,555.9
,248
4.4
alance at end of
1911
37,257.15
975
54,093.2
3,164.13
91
Various Regulations restricling this trade have been passed from 1910 on ards, and it has not ceased except for medicinal purposes.
COCAI HE.
Years.
Imports.
lbs. oz.
Exorts. 1bl. oz.
Local Consumption.
ibs.
Oz.
1909 1910 1911
68. 12 14b. 5 451. 11
441.
665. 12
60. 9
6. 3
6. 3
Trade in Cocaine has now ceped except for medical pur,oses.
FOUDS
GFIUM.
fears.
Laports. lbs. oz.
Exports. 1b. 03.
Local Consumption.
lbs.
OZ.
1907
15,383. 8
9,484. 4
.702. 2
1900
10,673.
8.246.
3,654. 2
1909
13,216.12
9,859.
3,387. 12
1910
7,467.
b.09.11
2,397. 5
1911
4,573.13
4,333. 5
240. 8
51,314. 1 36,922. 4
14,351. 13
This trade is now confined to the import of Anti-opium pills by Legars. Mondt & Co. for export to Batavia for the Dutch Govern- -ment there.
(Sd.) R. 0. Hutchison,
Superintendent, Imports & Exports. 13,710)