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province concerned of one-half of its share of the revenue

derivable from the consolidated opium tax.

The Board concludes its memorial with the

remark that an official monopoly, besides leading to complica- -tions, would have to continue for a period of ten years, where- -as its proposals will ensure the extinction of the opium hahit before the end of that period and the traffic in the foreign

drug will then ipso facto cease.

The memorialists claim that there has al-

-ready been a large decrease in the production of native opium; but, while the figures contained in the table dealing with

the sale or distribution of foreign opium attached to the

memorial and probably derived from the returns of the Imperial

Maritime Customs are reliable, there is no doubt that the

statistics given for the production and sale of native opium,

based as they are on native returns, are grossly under-

-estimated and inaccurate.

In conclusion it may be well to refute the

statement made in the memorial that the Hongkong opium farmer

is allowed to boil fifteen cases of opium daily, that less than three cases are required for the Colony's daily consumption, and

that the balance is illicitly exported to China. Had the Board

read the report of the Cormissioner of Customs for Kowloon for

1907, it would have found that the Hongkong opium farmer boiled only 725 cases during the year and that forty-one of these

cases contained Chinese Opium. In other words, the Hongkong

opium farmer boiled less than two cases of raw opium daily

and the Commissioner of Customs states that part of the opium

30 prepared was exported to Annam and the Straits Settlements.

I an forwarding a copy of this Despatch to

the Government of India and to the Governor of Hongkong.

I have etc.,

(sd.) J. N. Jordan.