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no clue to the sender, and the addressee was usually an accommodation address. One Chinese male who was arrested in connection with a postal case absconded leaving $2,000 bail behind.
Opium Divans.
31. The supplies for local smokers were either prepared locally from Chinese raw, or from Persian raw, or imported in prepared state from Macao, Kwong Chow Wan or Wuchow, or other nearby ports. Local boiling was regularly carried out although in small lots.
32. The number of divans during the year did not decrease and in many cases they reopened within a few hours of being raided. In one case two divans in adjacent houses on a floor opening off the same staircase were raided, and found in operation on three successive days. Female attendants were found, and tea, cigarettes and fruit were on sale.
33. As a general rule persons found smoking in divans were not arrested, owing to insufficient accommodation at the Gaol. Convicted divan keepers very seldom paid their fines, for as often as not they were paid by their principals for the period served in gaol.
Retail price of illicit prepared opium varied from $2.50 to $3.00 per tael. Chinese raw ranged from $1.70 to $2.20, and Persian raw from $1.70 to $2.20 per tael. Persian prepared opium was available at $3.00 per tael.
Opium Shops.
34. During the year the policy of selling Government opium through the Head Office and Government shops for the most part was further developed by the opening of seven additional shops, while the only retailers retained were those who functioned in the New Territories. The shops, in all 13 in number, are so disposed as to serve all parts of the urban district.
V.—HEROIN.
35. During the year under review 3,606,707 pills and 771 ozs. of heroin were seized in 526 cases, a large majority of which were found in pill factories.
A raid on a heroin factory in Kowloon revealed that an address in Des Voeux Road Central was probably a distributing place for heroin. When this address was raided it was found to be a depot for heroin pills and for pill ingredients, and altogether 87 ozs. of heroin were found on the premises. One Chinese male was arrested who was eventually sentenced to 61 years hard labour. The drug in this case is believed to have come from Tientsin. Casual seizures were made at other places in the Colony, and in one case a bottle containing oz. heroin, and in another a tin containing 25 ozs. of heroin, were found to have labels bearing the name of the Japan Pharmaceutical Establishment of Osaka.
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no clue to the sender, and the addressee was usually an accom- modation address. One Chinese male who was arrested in connection with a postal case absconded leaving $2,000 bail behind.
Opium Divans.
31. The supplies for local smokers were either prepared locally from Chinese raw, or from Persian raw, or imported in prepared state from Macao, Kwong Chow Wan or Wuchow, or other nearby ports. Local boiling was regularly carried out although in small lots.
32. The number of divans during the year did not decrease and in many cases they reopened within a few hours of being raided. In one case two divans in adjacent houses on a floor opening off the same stair-case were raided, and found in opera- tion on three successive days. Female attendants were found, and tea, cigarettes and fruit were on sale.
33. As a general rule persons found smoking in divans were not arrested, owing to insufficient accommodation at the Gaol. Convicted divan keepers very seldom paid their fines, for as often as not they were paid by their principals for the period served in gaol.
Retail price of illicit prepared opium varied from $2.50 to $3.00 per tael. Chinese raw ranged from $1.70 to $2.20, and Persian raw from $1.70 to $2.20 per tael. Persian prepared opium was available at $3.00 per tael.
Opium Shops.
34. During the year the policy of selling Government opiumi through the Head Office and Government shops for the most part was further developed by the opening of seven additional shops, while the only retailers retained were those who func- tioned in the New Territories. The shops, in all 13 in number, are so disposed as to serve all parts of the urban district.
V.-HEROIN.
35. During the year under review 3,606,707 pills and 771 ozs. of heroin were seized in 526 cases, a large majority of which were found in pill factories.
A raid on a heroin factory in Kowloon revealed that an address in Des Voeux Road Central was probably a distributing place for heroin. When this address was raided it was found to be a depot for heroin pills and for pill ingredients, and alto- gether 87 ozs. of heroin were found on the premises. One Chinese male was arrested who was eventually sentenced to 61 years hard labour. The drug in this case is believed to have come from Tientsin. Casual seizures were made at other places in the Colony, and in one case a bottle containing oz. heroin, and in another a tin containing 25 ozs. of heroin, were found to have labels bearing the name of the Japan Pharmaceutical Establishment of Osaka.
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