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SIR,

(No. 310.)

No. 103.

JAMAICA.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 12 September, 1912.)

King's House, Jamaica, 24th August, 1912. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch "Miscellane- "of the 26th ultimo, informing me that it appears to you that it would be very desirable that, in informing the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that this Government agree to The Hague Opium Convention being signed on its behalf, you should be able to state that the Legislature of the Colony had passed an enactment to give effect to the provisions of the Convention, and transmitting a draft Bill to be laid before the Council for the purpose.

2. I would beg leave to state in reply that, in accordance with your directions, the Bill will be placed before the Legislative Council immediately on its re-assembling in the early part of next year, and expedition will be given to its passage through the Council.

20

ous

1

20

Tahils of

Year.

Chandu sold in

Singapore.

Tahils of Chandu sold in Penang.

Chandu sold in

Remarks,

Malacos.

Tahile C.H.

Tahile C.H.

Tahila C.H.

1907

1,223,032

535,414

132,328

Figures supplied by the Opium

Farmer

28836

1908

1,173,840

500,415

112,785

"

11

11

1909

1,066,709

448,950

113,025

"

"

1910

1,042,079-3-2

1911

1,064,499

441,769-9-4 511,792

167,808-6-0 193,215

LICENSED PREMISES.

8.

Chandu Smoking Booms.

Retail Chandu Shops.

P.

M.

9.

P.

M.

31st December, 1907

449

19

42

97

126

44

31st December, 1908

448

39

100

129

42

31st December, 1909

440

36

96

127

34

21st December, 1910

366

24

168

130

88

31st December, 1911

317

30

37

200

154

115

SEIZURES.

Year.

Opium.

Chandu,

Cocaine.

Morphia.

Bhang.

1907

1907

4,936 tls.

5,241

203 ปล.

253

"

11

Figures not available.

1908

1909

1910

1911 6,434-4

1

5,021 tls. 16,969 tls. |2,062 ounces | 5664 ounces

7,915-57 tls 453-95

"

281-73.

360 packets

I have, &c..

SYDNEY OLIVIER,

Governor.

(No. 64.)

SIR,

No. 104.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received September 12, 1912.)

Government House, St. John's, 30th August, 1912. REFERRING to your despatch, No. 98, of the 17th May last, in relation to the International Opium Convention, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a letter from the Colonial Secretary on the subject, with six copies of the Pharmacy Act, 1910.‡

I have, &c.,

RALPH WILLIAMS.

Enclosure in No. 104.

Remarks.

Figures supplied by Mr.

Chua Giang Thye. Figures for January- November, supplied by Mr. Khaw Joo Choe.

SIR,

Colonial Secretary's Office, St. John's, Newfoundland,

August 8th, 1912. REFERRING to despatch, No. 98, of 17th May, from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in relation to the International Opium Con- vention, and with special reference to Article 21 of that document, I have the honour to state that :—

(a) The law existing in this Colony respecting the subject matter of the Convention is contained in Section 16 of the Pharmacy Act, 1910, of which six copies are enclosed herewith.

.

(b) All opium, morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, and all drugs which are poisons, can only be imported into this Colony by members of the Pharmaceutical Society. As they are all entered under Item 104 of the Tariff, Medicinal, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Prepara- tions," there is no separate account available in the Statistical Depart- ment of the Customs of the quantities of each. From the Secretary of

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

EPERE CO. 885

22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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