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large amount of the opium seized.
The S.S. Tjinnoun was purchased here at the end of 1930 as the Sagara Maru and sent to Canton to be registered in the name of a Chinese owner. She has changed her name this year to "Vatie" but is alleged to be under the same ownership, and still used occasionally for the same business. She is however also employed in ordinary trade to and from Canton.
18. As the year closed a good deal of information was received that certain opium, shipped secretly from Bushire, had reached the vicinity of an island 40 miles to the south of this Colony, and had there been transhipped into junks, and that some had been landed at Macao. Investigations were still in hand at the end of the year.
19. The usual amount of Chinese raw opium was seized coming from all the possible sources of supply, but especially from Canton. It is noteworthy that no opium which could definitely be identified as new crop was encountered.
There would appear to have been a heavy carry-over of old stock; this was confirmed in a letter from a large opium dealer in Kwong Sai Province, which was seized on the person of an opium dealer.
20. General. The Opium Conference in the Far-East, agreed on under the 1925 Geneva Convention, was held at Bangkok in November. The Colony was represented on the British Delegation by Mr. D. W. Tratman, C.M.G., of the Colonial Secretariat; the writer (Mr. J. D. Lloyd) was also called in to assist at the request of the British Delegate.
21. The opium position in Canton was little affected by the change of Government which took place. The head of the Opium Suppression was soon replaced after a short interregnum, during which the former administrative staff carried on.
22. The opium crops in Yunnan and Fukien were reported to have been very good and the extent of country under opium above the average.
Nevertheless the local price seems to have kept very steady, which may have been due to a strong demand from the Shanghai market, which it was proposed to meet by the direct shipment of 500 tons of Yunnan opium via French territory, a project which is reported to have failed.
23. In December a census was taken of the number of purchasers of Government opium; the daily average was found to be 3,512, the number varying little from day to day. Besides these the number of registered licensed and rationed purchasers of Kamshan opium on December 31st was 281. It is to be remarked that the purchaser of opium is very often not the same person as the eventual smoker. Thus any scheme of registration can at best be only a registration of the
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large amount of the opium seized.
The S.S. Tjinnoun was purchased here at the end of 1930 as the Sagara Maru and sent to Canton to be registered in the name of a Chinese owner. She has changed her name this year to "Vatie" but is alleged to be under the same ownership, and still used occasionally for the same business. She is however also employed ordinary trade to and from Canton.
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18. As the year closed a good deal of information was received that certain opium, shipped secretly from Bushire, had reached the vicinity of an island 40 miles to the south of this Colony, and had there been transhipped into junks, and that some had been landed at Macao. Investigations were still in hand at the end of the year.
19. The usual amount of Chinese raw opium was seized coming from all the possible sources of supply, but especially from Canton. It is noteworthy that no opium which could definitely be identified as new crop was encountered.
There would appear to have been a heavy carry-over of old stock; this was confirmed in a letter from a large opium dealer in Kwong Sai Province, which was seized on the person of an opium dealer.
20. General. The Opium Conference in the Far-East, agreed on under the 1925 Geneva Convention, was held at Bangkok in November. The Colony was represented on the British Delegation by Mr. D. W. Tratman, C.M.G., of the Colonial Secretariat; the writer (Mr. J. D. Lloyd) was also called in to assist at the request of the British Delegate.
21. The opium position in Canton was little affected by the change of Government which took place. The head of the Opium Suppression was soon replaced after a short interregnum, during which the former administrative staff carried on.
22. The opium crops in Yunnan and Fukien were reported to have been very good and the extent of country under opium above the average.
Nevertheless the local price seems to have kept very steady, which may have been due to a strong demand from the Shanghai market, which it was proposed to meet by the direct shipment of 500 tons of Yunnan opium via French territory, a project which is reported to have failed.
23. In December a census was taken of the number of purchasers of Government opium; the daily average was found to be 3,512, the number varying little from day to day. Be- sides these the number of registered licensed and rationed purchasers of Kamshan opium on December 31st was 281. It is to be remarked that the purchaser of opium is very often not the same person as the eventual smoker. Thus any scheme of registration can at best be only a registration of the
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