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SIR,

(No. 584.)

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Enclosure in No. 118.

Governor's Office, Sandakan, 3rd September, 1912. Circular Despatch with Regard to Article 21 of the International Opium

Convention.

IN further reply to your despatch, No. 318 and dated June 28th, on the above subject, I have the honour to forward-

2.

(a) Copies of the existing and Administrative Regulations in force here

with regard to opium.*

(b) Statistical information as to the trade in opium.

In addition to these, I think it would be well to inform the Colonial Office, that, as regards B, we have no trade in raw opium; the farmer has been the sole importer and prepared the opium for sale within the State as chandu. There is no trade in morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, nor in any other drugs or their respective salts referred to in the Convention.

3. I may add also that we shall no doubt be able to supply more accurate figures after we take over farm in 1913.

I have, &c.,

F. W. FRASER,

The Chairman,

Officer Administering the Government.

British North Borneo Company,

37. Threadneedle Street, E.C.

33275

(No. 147.)

SIR,

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No. 120.

NEW ZEALAND.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 21 October, 1912.)

[Copy to Foreign Office, 12 November, 1912. L.F.]

[Answered by No. 130.]

Government House, Dominion of New Zealand,

Wellington, 13th September, 1912.

WITH reference to your despatch of the 6th March, No. 69,* forwarding copies of a Convention for the gradual suppression of the abuse of opium and of morphine, cocaine, and similar drugs, which was signed at the Hague on the 23rd January, and enquiring whether my Ministers are able to recommend that the Convention should be signed on behalf of the New Zealand Government, I have the honour to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a memorandum received from my Prime Minister on the subject.

2. Copies of the Acts and Regulations mentioned in the memorandum are attached.

I have, &c..

ISLINGTON,

Governor.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

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201,312 tahils. 211,331 186,158 222,126 229,108

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No. 119.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS. [Answered by Nos. 152 and 161.]

(Falklands. No. 113.)

(St. Helena. No. 45.) SIR,

Downing Street, 19th October, 1912. WITH reference to my despatch, Miscellaneous, of the [24th] [26th] of July,† I have the honour to inform you that I consider it desirable, for the sake of uni- formity of procedure, that legislation to give effect to the Hague Opium Convention should be passed in the Colony under your government.

2. I enclose a printed copy of a despatch from the Governor of the Gold Coast forwarding a draft Ordinance, which I have approved with the following amendments :-

(1) In Section 11 the words "not being or having the status of a ship of war"

should be inserted after the word “ ship."

(2) A section should be added forbidding the cultivation of the opium poppy

(papaver somniferum).

(3) In view of Article 24 of the Convention, a section should be added to the

effect that the law shall come into force on a day to be fixed by proclamation by the Governor.

3. I shall be glad if you will take the necessary action for the enactment of this Ordinance, with such verbal alterations as local circumstances may require.

† No. 7th.

Enclosure in No. 120.

MEMORANDUM FOR HIS EXCELLENCY The Governor.

Prime Minister's Office, Wellington,

10th September, 1912.

The Prime Minister presents his compliments and returns herewith G.H. 256 of 1912, relative to the Opium Convention. It is recommended that the Convention be signed on behalf of New Zealand and the Government will consider what steps it will be necessary to take to give effect to the policy laid down in the Convention."

A copy of the Opium Act of 1908, the Opium Act Amendment Act of 1910, and the regulations made thereunder prohibiting the importation and use of opium, is forwarded for His Excellency's information, and the Prime Minister desires to add that, as opium is not manufactured in New Zealand, the provisions of the Convention relating to export have no application.

W. F. MASSEY,

Prime Minister.

33952

(No. 243.)

SIR,

No. 121.

NYASALAND.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

(Received 26 October, 1912.)

[Answered by No. 139.]

Government House, Zomba, Nyasaland Protectorate,

14th September, 1912.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 191, of the 16th of July, 1912,‡ on the subject of the Hague Opium Convention.

2. I propose to give effect to the directions contained in paragraph 3 of your despatch by enacting Rules under Section 17 of the Sale of Drugs and Poisons

I have, &c.,

L. HARCOURT.

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‡ No. 65.

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