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Committee effective, His Grace is informed
that there is little doubt that the recom-
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mendations of the Advisory Committee will
be accepted by the Assembly.
2.
In this event it is anticipated
that the proposed Conference of Powers
with Far Eastern territories, which was
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recommended in the second resolution adopted
by the Advisory Committee, will take place
probably in the summer of next year.
3. In connexion with this
resolution I am to remind you (for
convenience of reference) hat the text
of Article 6 of the International
Opium Convention, 1912, is as follows:-
"The Contracting Powers shall take
measures for the gradual and effective
suppression of the manufacture of
internal trade in, and use of prepared
opium, with due regard to the varying
circumstances of each country concerned,
unless regulations on the subject are
already in existence,"
4.
His Grace is aware that the
measures which have already been taken
in North Borneo for the control of the
manufacture, trade in, and use of
prepared opium, comply in a large
measure with the requirements of the
Convention. It has, however, been
represented to His Grace that, in the
system of control in force in North
Borneo, (in common with other British
Colonies and Protectorates in the Far
East), ultimately the only effective
checks on the amount of opium which may
be consumed are (1) the high price of
the commodity and (2) the fluctuationa
of demand, determined by the purchasing
power of consumers; and that it is diffi-
cult to defend the continuance of such
a system in territory under the protection
of a Power which claims an effective
observance of the Convention. His Grace
is compelled to agree that these obser-
vations have considerable force, and
4.
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