AnnualReport-1927 — Page 146

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Seizures of illicit opium on board S.S. “TAI HING”.

April 4, 1927, 500 taels prepared opium. Concealed in cargo.

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Concealed in saloon

locker.

Concealed in a basket

of duck's eggs.

prepared opium. Concealed in saloon

July 2,

2

11

Aug. 3,

480

29

ràw opium

Aug. 19,

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Aug. 29,

15

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Sept. 9,

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6

16

raw opium.

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prepared opium.) raw opium. prepared opium.

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Sept. 19,

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locker.

Concealed on the per-

son.

Concealed in 1st class

saloon lockers. Concealed in 2nd class saloon lockers. Concealed on the per-

son.

Concealed in the

Crew's quarters.

Concealed in Euro-*

pean pantry.

Separately concealed

in pantry.

Concealed in: the

forecastle.

Concealed on the per-

son of pantry boy.

By comparison with this source seizures from other sources are numerically trifling. But they are not without interest. Several seizures were effected of a variety of brands of prepared opium all packed in tins conveniently for export claiming Check Hom, Kwong Chau Wan as the place of manufacture, as for example the 'Kung Kei' brand packed by Hop Kei, the 'Flving Phoenix' of Tin Cheung, and the 'Flying Dragon' of Kung Hing.

During the first half of the year the usual seizures of 'Eagle' and 'Flying Horse', well-known export brands of the Macao farm, were made. After 1st July, when the Macao Government assumed the monopoly, these disappeared; but there reappeared in their place two brands of an earlier farm for which these two had been substituted, namely 'Golden Cock' and 'Red Lion'. This would seem to indicate an attempt by someone to maintain the old connections.

The seizures of Indian raw opium included a seizure of the cquivalent of one and a half chests (believed to have been part of three) of Calcutta opium introduced by a ship hailing from Kwong Chow Wan, and a seizure of some 900 taels in small balls, similar in make up to Malwa opium, taken on a ship hailing from Calcutta.