CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4] — Page 443

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MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF PREPARED OPIUM.

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Assuming that Her Majesty's Government, not-

withstanding what has been urged by the Straits Gove.n-

ment and the Hong Kong Government, decides that in

future the regulation of the sale anu manufacture of

opium should be by licences grunted by Government in-

stead of the present farming system it becomes neces-

sary to consider how that scheme can be worked, anu

in the case of Hong Kong how far it woula interfere

with the opium arrangement between China and Hong Kong

In Hong Kong two classes of cases have to

be provided for.

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(a) The case of opium manufactured (1) for ex-

(2) for consumption in the Colony

(b) The case of aross-opium manufactured from

The first requirement is that there should

be a Government factory - and store house, adjoining

for broken chests. In that factory all opium required

to be prepared for export or local consumption must

be prepared under Governm nt supervision. Those who

boil for export would ao.so in considerable quantities

and they shoula be licensed, and pay say $30 a Chust

for all they boil and export. Such licensees shoula

be required to enter into bonds to export what they

are allowed to boil and prepare at that rate, anu give evidence of such export - these licensees would be

very limited in number.