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VI. OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS.
33. One seizure of one-tenth of an ounce of morphine, with three seizures of a total of 142,731 morphine pills, were made during the year; there were also two seizures of cocaine, a male Chinese in one case receiving a sentence of five years hard labour for being in possession of 175 ounces of the drug. The other seizure of one ounce of cocaine was made together with that of the 47 ounces of heroin referred to in paragraph 29; no charge was preferred in respect of the cocaine seizure or in respect of the seizure of 17 ounces of crude brucine and 91 ounces of brucine admixture made simultaneously. Brucine, a poison but not a dangerous drug, is a usual ingredient of heroin pills.
VII. THE NEW TERRITORIES.
34. The Revenue Station at Sheung Shui maintained its usefulness and will probably prove of even greater value when road transport with Canton develops. Smuggling across the frontier decreased considerably towards the end of the year owing to causes which have already been outlined.
35. The number of heroin pills seized in the district was double the number seized in 1936. Here, as in the urban districts it is remarkable how quickly the habit spread when it had once been introduced.
VIII. CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN.
36. It falls to the Imports and Exports Department to issue Certificates of Origin in respect of consignments of goods produced locally for export. Some idea of the magnitude and increasing importance of this branch of the work, necessitated by Imperial Preference, Anti-dumping, and Quota enactments in many parts of the world, may be gathered from the fact that the number of Certificates of Origin issued rose from 11,891 in 1936 to 19,088 in 1937.
37. The procedure hitherto in force has been to require factories to register, and to admit officers from this department to inspect the process of manufacture at reasonable hours. In respect of each consignment the manufacturer makes a Statutory Declaration that the goods have been manufactured in his registered factory, and the Certificate issues if the results of inspections show that the requisite percentage of the finished value of the goods is the result of processes carried out in the Colony.
38. This procedure had to be modified in one important respect during the year, when the Imperial Government decided that certain goods, principally piece goods, should be admitted to countries of the Empire in accordance with Imperial Preference and Textile Quota enactments only if they had been "spun, woven and finished" within the Empire.
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VI. OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS.
33. One seizure of one-tenth of an ounce of morphine, with three seizures of a total of 142,731 morphine pills, were made during the year; there were also two seizures of cocaine, a male Chinese in one case receiving a sentence of five years hard labour for being in possession of 175 ounces of the drug. The other seizure of one ounce of cocaine was made together with that of the 47 ounces of heroin referred to in paragraph 29; no charge was preferred in respect of the cocaine seizure or in respect of the seizure of 17 ounces of crude brucine and 91 ounces of brucine admixture made simultaneously. Brucine, a poison but not a dangerous drug, is a usual ingredient of heroin pills.
VII. THE NEW TERRITORIES.
34. The Revenue Station at Sheung Shui maintained its usefulness and will probably prove of even greater value when road transport with Canton develops. Smuggling across the frontier decreased considerably towards the end of the year owing to causes which have already been outlined.
35. The number of heroin pills seized in the district was double the number seized in 1936. Here, as in the urban districts it is remarkable how quickly the habit spread when it had once been introduced.
VIII. CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN.
36. It falls to the Imports and Exports Department to issue Certificates of Origin in respect of consignments of goods produced locally for export. Some idea of the magnitude and increasing importance of this branch of the work, necessitated by Imperial Preference, Anti-dumping, and Quota enactments in many parts of the world, may be gathered from the fact that the number of Certificates of Origin issued rose from 11,891 in 1986 to 19,088 in 1937.
37. The procedure hitherto in force has been to require factories to register, and to admit officers from this department to inspect the process of manufacture at reasonable hours. In respect of each consignment the manufacturer anakes a Statutory Declaration that the goods have been manufactured in his registered factory, and the Certificate issues if the results of inspections show that the requisite percentage of the finished value of the goods is the result of processes carried out in the Colony.
38. This procedure had to be modified in one important respect during the year, when the Imperial Government decided that certain goods, principally piece goods, should be admitted to countries of the Empire in accordance with Imperial Pre- ference and Textile Quota enactments only if they had been "spun, woven and finished" within the Empire.
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