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that the Convention may be signed on behalf of [Basutoland] [the Bechuanaland Protectorate] [Swaziland] and that steps will be taken in due course to enact such legislation as may be necessary to render effective the measures decided upon in the Convention.
3. I shall be glad if you will submit the draft of a Proclamation enacting 'such provisions as you may consider to be necessary to meet the requirements of the
Convention.
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I have, &c.,
REGD. C. HART,
High Commissioner.
His Honour the Resident Commissioner of
[Basutoland]
[Bechuanaland Protectorate]
[Swaziland].
(No. 11/71.) SIR,
Enclosure 7 in No. 105.
High Commissioner's Office, Pretoria, August 23, 1912. WITH reference to Lord Gladstone's despatch, No. 56/1, of April 2nd, and subsequent correspondence, I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a minute* from Union Ministers stating that they are unable to recommend that the Inter- national Opium Convention be signed on behalf of the Government of the Union.
2. The reasons given by the Union Government for their decision may not be regarded as applying to Southern Rhodesia, and, in the circumstances, I shall be glad to know whether you see any objection to the Convention being signed on behalf of the Southern Rhodesia Administration, and the enactment at an early date of such legislation as may be necessary to meet the requirements of the Convention.
I have, &c.,
The Administrator of Southern Rhodesia,
REGD. C. HART,
High Commissioner.
(No. 208.)
SIR,
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No. 106.
NYASALAND.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 21 September, 1912.)
Government House,
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Zomba, Nyasaland Protectorate, 10th August, 1912.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of the 16th of May, 1912,* requesting me to forward copies of all the laws, proclamations, rules or other statutory provisions in force in this Protectorate relative to the matters referred to in the International Opium Convention.
2. The only law at present in operation in the Protectorate which regulates the sale of opium and its preparations is the Poison and Opium Regulations, 1901, copies of which are enclosed. You will have learnt from my despatch No. 143 of the 25th of May, 1912, that a Bill intituled "The Sale of Drugs and Poisons Ordinance, 1912," repealing the Poison and Opium Regulations, has been passed by the Legis- lature, and was submitted to you for approval in my despatch, No. 154, of the 25th of May, 1912. When promulgated, this Ordinance will constitute the law on the subject in question.
3. I regret that no return can be given of the importations of opium during the past five years, as specified in Article 21 of the International Opium Convention, since no special record has been kept, as the custom has been to include opium for statistical purposes under the general heading of "Drugs." Instructions have now been issued for a separate record to be kept in future.
4. No opium was imported during the year 1911.
5. Your instructions regarding the submission of an annual return of imports of opium have been noted and will be carried out.
I have, &c.,
W. H. MANNING,
Governor.
Salisbury.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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(No. 11/71.) SIR,
Enclosure 8 in No. 105.
High Commissioner's Office, Pretoria, August 23, 1912. WITH reference to Lord Gladstone's despatch, No. 56/1, of April 2nd, and subsequent correspondence, I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of a minute* from Union Ministers stating that they are unable to recommend that the Inter- national Opium Convention be signed on behalf of the Government of the Union.
2. The reasons given by the Union Government for their decision may not be regarded as applying to Northern Rhodesia, and, in the circumstances, I shall be glad to know whether you see any objection to the Convention being signed on behalf of the Northern Rhodesia Administration. If not, I shall be glad if will submit the draft of a Proclamation enacting such provisions as may be neces- sary to meet the requirements of the Convention.
you
3. In this connection I shall be glad to know when I may expect to receive the copies of the laws and regulations and the statistical information asked for in the Secretary of State's despatch of May 16th last. See your despatch, No. 60, of June 22nd.†
The Administrator of Northern Rhodesia,
Livingstone.
I have, &c.,
REGD. C. HART,
High Commissioner.
SIR,
(No. 95.)
No. 107.
BERMUDA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received September 23, 1912.)
Government House, Bermuda, 7th September, 1912.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 60, of the 30th of July last,|| relative to the International Opium Convention, 1912.
2. If the Colony eventually decides to adhere to the Convention, and the neces- sary legislation is enacted, steps would then be taken to provide that the statistics regarding the importation of the drugs specified in Article 21 (3) of the Convention should be obtained and recorded in detail by the Revenue Department, in which case they would be available for the purposes of the annual return referred to in para- graph 2 of your circular despatch of the 16th of May last.*
3. For the reason stated in paragraph 2 of my despatch, No. 70, of the 27th of June, 1912,¶ the Revenue Department has no means of compiling these statistics for previous years, or of forming an estimate of the quantity of the drugs in question imported in recent years.
I have, &c.,
G. M. BULLOCK, Lieutenant-General, Governor and
Commander-in-Chief.
• No. 18.
Not reprinted.
‡ No. 49.
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[22268: mot printed.
↑ No. 58.
See Enclosure in No. 99,
Not sent to the Secretary of State.
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