CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9] — Page 630

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Regarding the affair of the inauguration of the Kwong Yuen Farm to

collect tax on prepared opium, all the regulations under which the

farm is run have been approved of by the Canton Anti-Opium Bureau,

and the farmer was ordered to work the farm under these rules. How-

ever, the Britishers are opposed to the scheme, alleging that it is

injurious to their trade, and is contrary to treaty stipulations.

They have begged the British Chargé d'Affaires at Peking to communi-

cate with the Wai-Wu-Pu, asking the latter to wire to the Canton

Viceroy to suspend the farm. All these have been previously reported

in our columns. Now, Mr. Fung Chun Yuen, a merchant, has voluntarily

offered the sum of one hundred and Twenty Thousand dollars to the

Provincial Government to be appropriated for charitable purposes, and

sent in an application to the Provincial Treasurer through Chan

Wai-Po, the President of the Anti-Opium Society, who asks that the

Canton Opium license monopoly be transferred to Fung Chun Yuen, whose

application was attached to his letter. The Provincial Treasurer has

now replied as to the difficulty of granting such an application.

The reply is as follows:- "I have the pleasure to reply to your

"letter enclosing Mr. Fung's application which has reached me, and

"the matter has had my attention. Regarding the affair of the Canton

"Opium license monopoly, the Anti-Opium Bureau has now revised its

arrangements as follows:-

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1.- To lengthen the time for collecting the tax.

2.-

To allow all purchasers of raw opium one month to turn the

drug into prepared opium and to pay the tax accordingly.

3.- To dispense with the service of the excise launches for

the detection of smuggling in Macao and to entrust the work of

recording the amount of Foreign Opium exported (7) to the Kunpak

Customs

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