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WHITEHALIG
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8th November, 1923.
Dear Paskin,
Many thanks for your note of the 31st October and previous notes, in regard to the pre arations for the Far Eastern Conference,
is quite sufficient in I agree that your draft despatch to Ceylon the circumstances, and I have u tested (on your draft returned herewith) a few small alterations for the purpose of dotting the i's and crossing the t's.
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I have traced my letter to Grindle of last July to which
Grindle tes and I enclose a copy. you refer in one of your flyt replied to it on the 18th, but his note does not bear any Colonic. Office number, The Table enclosed with my letter is, as you sugest, the one that has since been printed on page 177 of the Linutes of the Proceedings of the Advisory Committee at its Fifth Session les t May-June. The Table, however, in its original form,
in the mincets contained several mistakes, and I see that it has been printed, in that form without any revision; for instance, the figures for the Unfederated lay States under the heading of local consumption are entirely wrong. The number of grammes of opium consumed per head
The other figures under that heading for 1s 116,6, and not 1166.
the U.F.A.S. are similarly exagerated.
I propose that for the purposes of this and the other Conference we should prepare our own statistics and tables, as I am afraid we cannot altogether rely on the work that is done at Geneva, and perhaps you could ask the various Colonies com verned to/