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Both in Hongkong and in the halay Peninsula
the policy of the Covernment has been and continues to be the restriction of the traffic so far as is possible consistently with the prevention of the substitution of morphia injection and other forms of drug taking. The habit is already deplorably prevaleri and smuggling is hard to check since the packages containing the drugs are capable of easy concealment. Until the beginning of 1910 the importation preparation and sale of opium was formed by the Government of the Straits Settlements to a syndicato, whose interest lay in encouraging the use of the drug as far as possible. By urdinance ho: 21 of 1909 the Government took to itself the monopoly of
sell, and the right to import, export, prepare, retail onium. Chandu, i.e., opium prepared for con- sumption, can only be retailed by duly licensed
and licences are re- persons and at a fixed price; quired for the maintenance of smoking divans. Only adult males can buy chandu. Further restrictions on the sale wore imposed by a heavy increase in the price which in 1910 was raised by 50 per cent and by
opium smoking in brothels the rigid suppression of which had been a lucrative though illegal addition to the farmers' profits.
In the settlement of Labuan which is at present still subject to the "farm" system the Govern- ment will introduce the monopoly system at the end of 1912 when the farm expires. Arrangements have also
been