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Ordinance, to regulate the importation of opium; and to issue a Proclamation under Section 18 of the Ordinance to prohibit the cultivation of the opium poppy. I also propose to guard against the re-exportation of opium imported into the Protectorate by issuing a Proclamation under Section 62 of the Consolidating Customs Ordinance, 1906.

3. This procedure will obviate the necessity of enacting an Ordinance to amend the Sale of Drugs and Poisons Ordinance, which was submitted for your approval with my despatch, No. 154, of the 25th of May, 1912.*

I shall await your consent to the enactment of this Ordinance before carrying out the proposals contained in paragraph 2.

I have, &c.,

W. H. MANNING,

Governor.

33893

No. 122.

MALAY STATES.

34084

(No. 253.)

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No. 123.

FIJI.

THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 29 October, 1912.)

SIR,

Government House, Suva, Fiji, 25th September, 1912. WITH reference to your Circular despatch of the 16th May last, I have the honour to forward, in accordance with Article 21 of the International Opium Con- vention of the 23rd January, 1912, six copies of Fiji Ordinance, No. XVII. of 1910,† which regulates the sale and use of poisons in this Colony.

2. I enclose also a copy of a statement, showing the value and quantity of raw and prepared opium imported into Fiji from the year 1907 to the end of 1911. I regret that similar information in regard to morphia, cocaine, &c., cannot now be supplied.

3. The instructions given in the latter part of the second paragraph of your Circular despatch of the 16th May will be complied with in future.

SIR,

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 26 October, 1912.)

(No. 474.)

Government House, Singapore, 2nd October, 1912. WITH reference to your circular despatch of 18th May, 1912, I have the honour to forward four copies of all the enactments and rulest relative to the matters referred to in the International Opium Convention, and also a return showing the number of tahils of chandu (prepared opium) imported during the five years ending December, 1911.

2. Raw opium only was imported during 1907, 1908 and 1909; Government chandu only was imported for, consumption in the coastal areas of the three Western States, and raw opium only for the remainder of the Federated Malay States in 1910; only Government chandu was imported throughout the Federated Malay States in 1911. In the return, one chest of raw opium is taken for the purpose of comparison as the equivalent of 1,200 tahils of chandu.

3. I regret that, hitherto, deleterious drugs have not been separated in the Trade Returns from other drugs, and that it is, therefore, impossible to supply statistical information with regard to them.

I have, &c.,

Enclosure in No. 122.

I have, &c.,

BICKHAM ESCOTT,

Governor.

Enclosure 2 in No. 123.

HONOURABLE Receiver-General,

THE only statistics which can be supplied in this respect are as follows, viz. :—

Opium (raw and prepared).

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

Year,

Duty.

Weight.

Value.

Lbs.

£ 2. d.

419 17 3

644 # 2

635| 458

637

619 {1 9 0 0 483 0 0

421 12 0

526 7 6

£ 8. d. 409 16 538 12 11 0 549 8

2. In future the necessary information will be given on entries so as to obtain

all the information asked for annually.

ARTHUR YOUNG.

31 July, 1912.

34163

W. H. BRABANT.

RETURN SHOWING NUMBER OF TAHILS OF CHANDU IMPORTED DURING THE FIVE YEARS ENDING DECEMBER, 1911.

1907.

1908.

1909.

1910.

1911.

No. 124.

WESTERN PACIFIC.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Received 29 October, 1912.)

[Answered by No. 131.]

Office of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific,

Suva, Fiji, 30th September, 1912.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your circular despatch of the 16th May last, and to transmit to you copy of a minute by the Chief Judicial Com- missioner, from which you will see that there are no laws, proclamations, rules, or other statutory provisions now in force in the Protectorates of the Western Pacifio relative to the matters referred to in the International Opium Convention.

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Perak Selangor

Tabils.

Tahils. 2,880,000 2,312,400 2,065,200

Tahils. 1,820,400 1,698,000 1,130,400

Tahils.

629,411

Tahils. 1,217,421

676,397

Negri Sembilan Paliang

662,400

494,400

382,800

185,660

1,170,069

252,000

283,200

199,200

Total

5,859,600

4,788,000

3,532,800

192,300

1,683,798

67,720

2,445,210

(No. 241.)

SIR,

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‡ Not reprinted.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

MMC.O. 885

22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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