CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8] — Page 91

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TABLE

II.

Opium Prepared in Hongkong. Chests drawn by the Farmer for boiling.

During

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Year Patna. Benares.

Persian.

Chinese. Total Chests.

1907

605

79

41

725

1908

802

23

864

1909

960

1,044

1910

771

11

782

1911

658

100

3

761

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4000.c

3,796 179

47

154

4,176

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Sales of Prepared Opium etc., during the year 1911

from let. January to 31st. December inclusive.

Local Consumption.

Prepared Opium...

Dross Opium. . . . .

.666,135,055 taels. ...105,777,000

#

"

Native or Persian Opium.. 8,768,200

Prepared Opium exported by Opium Farmer during:-

1910......127,900 taels from March 31st. 1910.

1911...... 52,700

180,600

Full details for the working of the Farm are

not available till 1911. One chest of Patna.

Opium produces roughly 1,100 taels of

Prepared Opium.

Years.

TABLE TII.

MORPHI A.

Imports. Exports. lbs. oz.

lbs. 02.

Local Consumption.

lbs.

0%.

Balance from 1906

2,325.1

1907

9,694.10

9,469

1908

7.053. 7

9,120.2

1909

7.410.

7,238

1910

6,692. 9

4.037

600 2,555.9

1911

4.082. 4

3,248

9.4

Balance at end of

1911

975

37,257.15

34,093.2

3,164.13

Various Regulations restricting this trade have been passed from 1910 onwards, and it has now ceased except for medicinal purpos09.

COCAINE.

Years.

Imports. lbs. 02.

Exports. lbs. 03.

Local Consumption.

lbs. QZ.

1909 1910 1911

68. 12 145. 5 451. 11

12. 201. 445. 8

6. 3

665. 12

659. 9

6. 3

Trade in Cocaine has now ceased except for medicial purposes.

COMPOUNDS

OF OP IU M.

Years.

Imports. lbs. 02.

Exports. lbs. oz.

Local Consumption.

lbs.

02.

1907

15,383. 8

1908

10.673.

1909

13,216.12

1910

7,467.

9,454, 4 8,246. 19,859.

5,069.11

4,702.

2

654.

2

357. 12

2,397.

1911

4,573.13

4,333, 5

240.

61,314. 1

36,962. 4

14,351. 13

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This trade is now confined to the import of Anti-opium pills by Messrs. Wendt & Co. for export to Batavia for the Dutch Govern- -ment there.

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(Sd.) R. 0. Hutchison,

Superintendent, Imports & Exporta,

13.7.12