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The Opium Advisory Committee of the League of
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will be meeting on the 14th Kay, and it is high time therefors that I should be sending in, for circulation to the members, (a) te Liemorandum as to the requirements of Hong Kong (see Paskin's note to me of the 9th riff and (b) our proposals for securing a more uniform and effective application of the provisions of Fart 2 of the Oium Convention.
As a result of conversations which I have had with r. Smith of the ong Kong Opiu. Service, Ir. HoElderry, Del the Goverlor of Hong Kong, and with Mr. Swettenham, the head of the Opium Dey artment of the Feuerated Lalay Stutes, and others, I think we might suit for the coleration of tin Conzai ttee the following proposals, to be recommenued for adoption by all Powers having Lossessions in the fast where the consumption of reared o;ium is still permitted:-
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(1) That the far system, where it is still in oper: tion, should be abolished, and that the opium business bould -} made
a Government monopoly and et entirely in the hands of the Government,
(*) AB a corollary of (1), that the retail sale of pre sredo ium should be mace only from Government shops, nd
that all private shops should be abolished. Person in charge
of the Goverment shops should be lid a fixeu salary without
any commiusion on the amount of business done, and therefore
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