17.
559
kaz Oplun
56.
Under the Hague Convention, the signatorics Arc to control the production of raw opium, This country prod duced a certain amount and undur thu num law the poppy plant con only be cultiv tud under license, (Orium Law, Section, 4),
4.
57. The raw ocium used for the preparation of Regio opium is now obtained from the Government of India et a fixed crico, under the turas of an agreement moviding for naximum auprly of 1700 chusts per year. From this a- mount, 1,850,000 tamlungs of Regio Opium are propered,
Orium Factory.
58. This factory, crected at a total cost of 1,300,000 tioals has worked satisfactorily s nec 1913. The machine Boiling Plant hes a cepsofty for boiling and pruparing 1800 chuats of raw opium per anmum at a much low- .r cost than the old method of hand boiling. The packing plant has a capacity of 60,000,000 tubus per annum, tho amount of orium paokud depending on the sizes of the tubes issued.
The plant is designed to produca five diffurent aizos of tubus, as follows:-
Equivalent
Tube N
N° of tubos to 1 tamlung
Weight of ocium
onoked in hoons
in grans.
1
10
10
3.75
2
20
5
1,37
3
30
3.1/3
1.25
40
2.1/2
0.94
50
1.2/3
0.625
Annexe V. shows the amount sold in the different sized tubes during the year 2460 (1917-18) to R.E. 2462 (1919-20)
Sauggling.
59, Smuggling is, of course, the gruntust difficulty hich a country attempting suppression has to deal with, If it were not for this question, any country rould be free to tako stups, however dristic, to deal with the internal traffic in opium. It usually follo's, however, that mesures taken for restricting internal control re at once followed by the smuggling of opium from other countries. Opium is