Colony's prisons to be seriously congested and I
ascertained that in recent years one-third of the
inmates were serving sentences for smoking or
trafficking in illicit opius.
follows:-
The figures are as
Total number of
prisoners.
Mumber of prisoners convicted under the Jpium Ordinance.
Year
1924
7,382
1925
6.339
1926
6,511
1927
7.740
2,457
2.932
2,595
3,044
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I turned to the record of official sales of opium
and found that they had been falling, and falling
quickly, for a considerable time, and that the
weekly average was little more than half the weekly
average three years ago. In round figures the
revenue situation was as follows:
Proof.
30232/329
Hals
10
Year
1924
1925
1926
1923
127
5,224,000
Gross Sales (.759,000 Costs
₺ 496,000
3,466,000 2,900,000 777.000 695,000 690,000
Net Profit £2,263,000 £4.257,000 $2,761, 0012,213,000
dang dap
ant
The Colony's opium revenue in 1926 was 10.1for
its total income, and, as I pointed out in my
budget speech to the Legislative Council on the
lat September last, a copy of which was forwarded to
you in my despatch ko.374 of 1st September, 1927,
the ratio between opium revenue and total revenue in
ho. 6 30222/27 [NO
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