CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5] — Page 528

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report one of the two things must be done.

Either the Govern- ment can wink at the importation or it must be totally pro- hibited. It would be impossible without a large staff to collect the fees on the small amounts which the old women now bring in and the returns would never cover the expenditure. If the import is totally prohibited one or two Indian Policemen can stop the import. If import is prohibited new distilleries will spring up.

The distilleries at Sheung Shui and Sha Tau Kok now complain of the amount imported but you will understand that without a ehroff and a receipt book on all the path leading into the Territory it is impossible to collect fees. I therefore recommend that the import of chinese wines and spirits into the Territory be entirely prohibited unless notice has been pre- viously given and the duty paid. I put in this proviso because total prohibition may be illegal.

B. has been proposed to me by Tang Wal Tong but though it would in some ways be a convenience i do not recommend the formation of a new farm. The distilleries at Un Long also talk

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of forming a Tong and distilling under a common name. will report on later if anything comes of it.

I wish to raise a further point. I have never been able to understand why a man who has five stills like the Sun Hing Loong pays no more than a shop which has only one. The fee is $25 and it does not seem to matter how many stills are employed. One of the objects of the proposed Tong at Un Long is that the Tong will have some twenty stills in operation but will still pay $25 only. Perhaps you will raise this point as it seeme wrong that the Government should lose money in this way.

Report from Mr. Last.-

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Exclusive of the Sun Hing Loong, 92 Tai Kiu, there are 27 licensed distilleries each of which is also licensed to sell native wine and spirits. The distilleries are situated at Sun

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