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for all material used, based on accurate weighing. A European Revenue Officer and three Chinese assistants have now been stationed permanently at the factory, and a good deal of improvement has been effected but a careful stocktaking at the end of the year showed that there was still considerable room for improvement. It is understood that the Company have decided on a general reorganisation of the factory, and it is hoped that the introduction of some better system of accounting will in the future obviate any future difficulties, while at the same time considerably easing the work of proper revenue control. The complete lack of any scientific data collected over a period of years made the investigation extremely difficult.
Scientific control of Manufacture.
The work of controlling the manufacture of tobacco in all its various forms in this Colony is made more difficult by the fact that hitherto it has been impossible to acquire any useful textbook on the subject of the manipulation of tobacco during the course of manufacture. The tobacco industry, large as it is, is one of the few industries which seem to possess no technical literature. There are a large number of points on which an authoritative textbook would have been of the greatest assist-
Prior to 1926 no scientific work had been done here on the subject of tobacco and its manufacture; during the year Dr. Lubatti, Assistant Government Analyst, who was attached to this department during the absence on leave of the Monopoly Analyst, devoted a considerable amount of time to the examination of tobacco of various kinds. Sufficient work has now been done to prove the need of constant scientific examination in order that complete data may be accumulated on various points throughout each year, so that it may be possible to compare the physical state of the numerous kinds of tobacco used here at different periods of each year over a series of years.
Licensed Warehouses.
Steps were taken to eliminate small licensed warehouses for the storage of dutiable tobacco under private control. These were situated inside of and formed an integral part of premises used for the retail sale of tobacco. Revenue locks were for the first time placed on the largest licensed warehouses, and provision was made in the Estimates for 1927 for the purchase of sufficient revenue locks for all the licensed warehouses. The issue of fresh licences for warehouses was severely restricted. There are in fact very few premises in the Colony which are suitable for the warehousing under private control of dutiable goods. The premises suggested are generally the ground floor of some Chinese tenement house, which is quite unsuitable in the majority of cases.
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for all material used, based on accurate weighing. A European Revenue Officer and three Chinese assistants have now been stationed permanently at the factory, and a good deal of im- provement has been effected but a careful stocktaking at the end of the year showed that there was still considerable room for improvement. It is understood that the Company have decided on a general reorganisation of the factory, and it is hoped that the introduction of some better system of accounting will in the future obviate any future difficulties, while at the same time considerably easing the work of proper revenue control. The complete lack of any scientific data collected over a period of years made the investigation extremely difficult.
Scientific control of Manufacture.
The work of controlling the manufacture of tobacco in all its rous forms in this Colony is made more difficult by the fact that hitherto it has been impossible to acquire any useful textbook on the subject of the manipulation of tobacco during the course of manufacture. The tobacco industry, large as it is, is one of the few industries which seem to possess no technical literature. There are a large number of points on which an muthoritative textbook would have been of the greatest assist-
Prior to 1926 no scientific work had been done here on the subject of tobacco and its manufacture; during the year Dr. Lubatti, Assistant Government Analyst, who was attached to this department during the absence on leave of the Monopoly Analyst, devoted a considerable amount of time to the examina- tion of tobacco of various kinds. Sufficient work has now been done to prove the need of constant scientific examination in order that complete data may be accumulated on various pointe throughout each year, so that it may be possible to compare the physical state of the numerous kinds of tobacco used here at different periods of each year over a series of years,
Licensed Warehouses.
Steps were taken to eliminate small licenced warehouses for the storage of dutiable tobacco under private control. These were situated inside of and formed an integral part of premises used for the retail sale of tobacco. Revenue locks were for the first time placed on the largest licenced warehouses, and pro- vision was made in the Estimates for 1927 for the purchase of sufficient revenue locks for all the licenced warehouses. The issue of fresh licences for warehouses was severely restricted. There are in fact very few premises in the Colony which are suitable for the warehousing under private control of dutiable goods. The premises suggested are generally the ground floor of some Chinese tenement house, which is quite unsuitable in the majority of cases.
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