Retarin on file,
474
Downing Street,
29 November, 1923.
Dear Sir Malcolm,
The Bolomon Islands reply to the Opium Questionnaire was sent to the Home Office for trans- mission to the Lesque of Nations on the 14th of June, 1922. The reply to qmation 10 was "Prohibited". In the annual report to the League of Nations on the administration of New Guinea (which is mandated to the Commonwealth of Australia) the reply to question I (5) in the questionnaire issued by the Permanent kandates Commission is as follows:-
"The importation of opium suitable for smoking is prohibited by the Customa Ordinance 1921, 846. Since the close of the year, the importation of derivatives of opium has beer prohibited,except for medical purposes only, and upon the order of a medical practitioner or pharmaceutical chemist; and by the Pharmacy and Polsons Ordinance 1923 the manufacture or sale of raw and prepared opiw, the making of derivatives of opium and the sale of
derivatives
M. DELEVINGNE K.C.B.,
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