CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895 — Page 29

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S 25 MAR 95/

At a public meeting held at the Largs Public Hall, Croydon, ow

Wednesday 20th March 1895,

Mr

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Armfield

4. Alexander in the chair, the following resolution was proposed by Mr. A. C. Sterry, seconded by

unanimously

and

adopted: -

Ston

The M. For the Marquess of Papers,

This meeting having heard, the statements of Mr Andrew and Dr Shate Bushnell

as to the gross evils inseparable from

the

opium traffic in the Far East, thanks then

have taken to investigate

for the pains they

this painfuch subject

and to bring home to

the British people the true nature of this traffic. urges Her Majesty's Government without further delay to give full affect to the resolution of the House of Commons which declared the ofsium traffic to be morally indefensible, by stopping the growth of the poppy and the export and sale of opium, except as required for medical use, throughout the British donimious in the Cast:

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