CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 254

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Hongkong.

I A L.

IRECT

19662

R 3 JUN 07

Government House,

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Hongkong, 1st. May, 1907.

Enclosure 1.

My Lord,

In view of the prominence that the

Opium question has assumed, I have the honour to transmit

for Your Lordship's information copy of a letter addressed

to Sir Matthew Nathan in July last by the Representative

Heads of British Churches and Missions in this Colony on

Lenolsoure 2.

Enclosure 3.

the subject of the system on which the traffic in Opium is

conducted in Hongkong, and of the acknowledgment of this

letter and of the ultimate reply which Sir Matthew Nathan

addressed to the writers.

Steps are being taken to embody

in the Manual on Hygiene in use in the Schools in this

Colony a statement of the evil effects of the excessive

use of Opium and Alcohol.

2.

I entirely concur in the reply

addressed by Sir Matthew Nathan to Archdeacon Banister,

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and I am convinced that events will prove that if China

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

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