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to be made, by Commission or otherwise, as to what may be the best method by which the Government may check and, if possible, in time entirely abolish the use of opium, except for medicinal purposes, in this Colony.

(2). That Your Excellency will give instructions that

the pupils in the public schools of this Colony shall be taught

the evil and debasing results of the opium habit; and that the primers of hygiene, used as text books in the said schools,

shall include the necessary information on this matter.

With regard to this matter of education, we

would beg leave to add a quotation from the evidence of a Japane

Pastor, resident in Formosa, which is supported by the evidence

of many others.

"There is no one factor that more strongly

influences the young generation against the opium vice than the instructions given them in the public schools regarding the

poisonous and pernicious effects produced by the drug. The

Chinese youth are slowly learning the Japanese language, and with it are acquiring Japanese ideas and ideals, among which the idea most deeply inculcated is the perniciousness and disgrace

of the opium vice, for which they are taught to have an abhor-

-rence". (Ibid p. 63).

At the same time, however, we would point out, and we doubt not that Your Excellency will agree with us, that so long as the Government encourages rather than checks the

opium vice, instruction in the schools will be of little avail.

Therefore your Petitioners would humbly

pray,

etc.,

etc.,

We have etc.,

(Sd.) J. C. Victoria. (sd.) Thomas W. Pearce,

(Sd.) W. Banister,

(sd.) 0.

Senior Missionary in Hongkong of the L.M.S.

Archdeacon of Hongkong, Secretary, Church Missionary Society. Bone,

Chairman of the District and General Superintend- -ent of Wes.Kis.Soc.