The Section of the Hong Kong opium Ordinance
referred to in paragraph 4 of my draft despatch provides
that
"Except under and in accordance with a licence
granted by the Governor, no person or firm shall, whether
in his or its own behalf or on behalf of any other person or firm, buy or sell, or supply or procure, or offer to supply or procure, or otherwise deal in or offer to deal
in, any raw opium, whether such raw opium be in the
Colony or elsewhere, and whether it be ascertained or
appropriated or in existence or not....
I presume that your Department will not want
another copy of the Governor's despatch of 27th October 1926, to be sent to you officially.
Yours sincerely.