CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12] — Page 412

It is requested that any further communication on this subject the under-mentioned letter and number may be quoted, and the reply addressed to-

The Under Secretary of State for India,

India Office,

R. & S.1103.

Whitehall,

London, S. W.

India Office,

Whitehall,

407

London, S. W.,

1 June 2016

CO

16584

REC?

Rro 2 JUN 10)

Sir,

I am directed by the Secretary of State for

India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of you

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letter No.12483 dated 18th May 1910 on the subject

of the opium question in the Colony of Hong Kong.

2.

In reply I am to say that the figures

in paragraph 4 of Sir F.Laugard ́s despatch, showing

the permissible exports of Bengal une malo optuz

respectively in the years 1910, 1911, 1914, 1913 are

correct. They were determined und announced to the

trade by the Government of India after careful enguany

as to the present circumstances of the poppy industry

in the native states of India from which lalja opium

comes, and the probable consequences of suddenly

curtailing the area of production, or restricting the

The Under Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.