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No observations from the local point of view. This tightening up of the statutons provisions relating to the control of opium seems tot chiest a meation of pokens.
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11. Duncan.
The arrangement with the Home Office
whereby they undertook to advise on Colonial legislation relating to drugs had particular reference to the requirement of the Geneva Drugs Convention, 1925, which was largely the product of the Home Office and was based on
the Home Office system. The Home Office were
therefore experts in the matter, while we
were not. Even in regard to such legislation, however, the arrangement was purely semi- official and the assistance was given to us as an act of grace by the Home Office. Mr. Perrins has recently told me that the work of his branch of the Home Office has grown to such an extent that they can no longer under-
take the initial examination of Colonial
legislation arising out of the Drugs Convention (though they are, of course, prepared to advise us on specific points).
This particular Ordinance, however, does
not arise especiall, on the Drugs Convention
and there is no occasion to refer to the Home
Office.
Moreover, as it relates to the
Control of Opium in a Far Eastern Colony, it