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each successive Monopoly that this Government has let since

1886 as the following figures show:-

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.Tejalne пopaebranẬ

1886-1889 for 10 cente....

1889-1892 for 10 cents.

1892-1895 for 10 cents..

1895-1898 for 10 cents...

1898-1901 for 10 cents..

1901-1904 for 10 cents.

.mace 1.5

..mace 1.2

.mace 1.

.mace 0.8

mace 0.57

.mace 0.4

..mace 0.3

1904 - now for 10 cents...

and that the price of prepared Opium in Hongkong today compares

as follows with the price of the prepared drug in Canton:-

In Hongkong direct from the Opium Farmer...$3.30 the

tael,

In Hongkong from retail dealers.

tael.

Of Indian Opium in Canton:-

$3.50 the

1.05 to 1.10 taels the tael or $1,46 to $1.53 the tael.

Of Native Opium in Canton;-

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0.80 to 0.85 taels the tael or $1.11 to $1.18 the tael.

The alternative systems suggested in the

Petition are all open to the objection that upon this Govern-

-ment would be cast the extremely difficult task of the pre-

-vention of smuggling of Opium into the Colony. That the

Government would fail in such task has already been demonstrated

by the experience gained in 1883 and 1884 when the Government

itself made the experiment of taking into its own hands the

monopoly of preparing Opium for smoking. The result was that

the net earnings fell in the second year to less than half the

earnings in the first year, owing to the impossibility of coping

with the smuggling and illicit boiling of Opium. It is not

necessary to point out that the more smuggling of Opium there

is into the Colony the cheaper the drug becomes and the wider

its consumption.

5.

As to the entire abolition of the use of

Opium in the Colony, except for medicinal purposes, a glance at

the