I shall most usefully assist Your Lordship in the matter in hand if I waive my own personal opinion points, and assume it for the sake of argument to be settled, whether rightly or wrongly, that the use of opium by the Chinese in Hongkong is an enormous evil, and that it should be the aim of the Government to discourage such use and to confine the local consumption of the drug to the smallest practicable proportions.
Proceeding therefore on the basis of this assumption, I would observe that in determining the proper method of dealing with the subject it is essential to bear in mind the three following considerations - (1) that it is desirable to restrict as far as may be practicable the local consumption of opium
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I shall most usefully assist Your Lordship
in the matter
in hand if I waive my
on
these
or
personal opinion points, and assume it for the sake of argument to be settled, whether rightly wrongly, that the use opium by the Chinese in Hongkong is an
of
evil, and
that it should be the aim of the Government to discourage such use and to confine the local consumption
of
of the drug to the smallest practicable proportions.
Proceeding therefore
4.
on the basis of this assumption, I would ~ observe that in determining the proper
proper method of dealing with the subject it is ~ essential to bear in mind the three following considerations - (1) that it is desirable to restrict as
far as may be practicable the local consumption of
opiume
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