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your predecessors observations on the
difficulty of taking action against
Nerazee under the Opium Ordinance as
it then stood.
5.
In these circumstances I
felt that there were insufficient
grounds for renewing the instructions
that such a prominent member of the
unofficial community in the Colony
(vide Sir R.E.Stubbs secret despatch of
the 7th of August, 1924) should be
denied facilities for travelling on his
legitimate business.
6.
I a observe however from page
2 of the Report forwarded with your
confidential despatch of the 27th of
October that some of the chests of
Persian opium carried by the s.s.
"Philadelphia" "had Nemazee's marks"
I presume you are satisfied that this
does not mean that the Hong Kong member
of