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No. 97.
GOLD COAST.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received August 26, 1912.)
(No. 531.) SIR,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of the, 16th of May,* in which you request me to furnish copies of local laws and regu- lations and the particulars prescribed in Article 21 of the International Opium Convention signed at the Hague on the 23rd of January, 1912.
Government House, Accra, 6th August, 1912.
2. I have to report that, with the exception of "The Druggists Ordinance, 1892" (No. 14, of 1892), now out of print, there are no existing laws or executive regulations in the Gold Coast respecting the matters referred to in the Convention.
Schedule A of "The Druggists Ordinance, 1892," includes as poisons (see Sections 2 and 3) Opium and all its preparations, including morphia and its salts." Section 4 makes it illegal for any person to act as, or carry on the business of, a druggist, or to mix, compound, prepare, sell, retail, or dispense any drug or poison, unless licensed and registered.
Section 14 provides that no poison shall be sold or dispensed by any person other than a druggist licensed or deemed to be licensed " under the Ordinance.
This section also enacts that every druggist shall keep a book called the " Sale of Poisons Book," and prescribes the form (Schedule G) of that book.
Section 19 imposes a penalty on druggists who permit any sale of drugs and poisons to take place by unauthorised persons.
3. Pending a reply to my despatch, No. 331, of the 9th of May last, covering a draft Bill entitled "An Ordinance to give effect to the measures decided upon in the International Opium Convention, signed at the Hague on the 23rd day of January, 1912," &c., I have directed the Comptroller of Customs to keep, as from the 1st of January next, the statistical information required by Article 21 (b) of the Convention.
The present practice is to classify imports of opium and its preparations under the comprehensive heading "Drugs and Chemicals," and I regret, therefore, that no definite statistics of the nature required will be available for transmission to you before the period ending the 31st of December, 1913.
I have, &c.,
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2. The total value of the "medicines, medical and surgical appliances" imported into the island during 1911 was £3,691. It is possible that doctors and chemists may have included in their long indents of various kinds of medicines periodically obtained from abroad small quantities of the drugs specified in Article 21 of the Convention; but this Government has not heretofore kept any records of such infinitestimal importations, and consequently is not in possession of statistical
any information on the subject. It would, of course, he possible for me to call upon all doctors and chemists in the island to submit returns of the amount of these prepara- tions which may have been imported within a specified period, but in view of the labour involved, and in view of the probable inaccuracy of such returns, I do not propose, subject to your concurrence, to adopt such a course.
I have, &c.,
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HAMILTON GOOLD-ADAMS,
High Commissioner.
No. 99.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR-GENERAL to THE SECRETARY OF STATE
(No. 544.)
SIR,
(Received 31 August, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 110.]
Governor-General's Office, Pretoria, 12 August, 1912.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith, with reference to your des patch, No. 105, of the 6th March,* copy of a minute from Ministers, on the subject of the Convention for the suppression of the abuse of opium, morphia, cocaine, and similar drugs.
I have, &c.,
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Enclosure in No. 99.
VILLIERS,
Acting Governor-General.
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No. 98.
CYPRUS.
HI. BRYAN,
Acting Governor.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received August 26, 1912.) [Answered by No. 114.]
(No. 160.) SIR,
Government House, Troodos, 15th August, 1912. In reply to paragraph 4 of your despatch, No. 94, of the 23rd July, 1912,4 in which you observe that the statistical information asked for in your circular despatch of the 16th May, 1912,* and specified in Article 21 of the International Opium Convention has not been supplied, I have the honour to report that, as stated in paragraph 3 of my despatch, No. 96, of the 28th May, 1912, § no raw opium "br prepared opium" within the meaning of Chapters I and 2 of the Convention is imported into Cyprus, and that opium and cocaine-producing plants are not culti- vated in the island.
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† No. 28.
‡ No. 74.
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§ No. 34.
(Minute 687.)
10 August, 1912.
WITH reference to His Excellency the Governor-General's minute, No. 3/905, dated 27th March last, transmitting despatch, No. 105,* from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the subject of the Convention for the suppression of the abuse of opium, morphia, cocaine, and similar drugs, Ministers regret that they are unable to recommend that the Convention be signed on behalf of the Government of the Union, inasmuch as the existing laws in force in the various Provinces of the Union fall short of some very material requirements which are to be enforced under the Convention, and it is impossible to give that guarantee which Article 24 thereof contemplates, to introduce legislation into the Union Parliament remedying the deficiencies.
LOUIS BOTHA.
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No. 100.
UGANDA.
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received September 2, 1912.)
(No. 325.) SIR,
Government House, Uganda, 6th August, 1912.
WITH reference to your circular despatch of the 16th May, 1912,† relating to the International Opium Conference, I have the honour to transmit six copies of the Opium Regulations, 1902, the only Regulations in force which appear to affect specifically the matters dealt with in the Convention.
• No. 1.
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† No. 18.
Not reprinted.
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