CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8] — Page 93

TABLE

IT.

Opium Prepared in Hongkong.

Chests drawn by, the Farmer for boiling.

During

Year! Patna. Benares. Persian. Chinese. Total Chests.

1907

605

79

41

1908

802

725 664

1909

960

1,044

1910

771

782

1911 1

068

100

761

3.796 179

47

154

4,176

Sales of Prepared Opium etc., during the year 1911 from 1st. January to at. December inclusive.

Local Consumption.

Prepared Opium.

Dross Opium.

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

#

W

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 i atna

Upium produces roughly 1,100 taels of i repared Opium.

TABLE III.

ORPH I A.

Sixgorts. lbs. oz.

yeurs.

Imports. lbs. 02.

ocal Consumption.

lbs.

02.

alence from 1906

2.325.1

1907

1908

9,694.10 7,053. 7

$,469

9,129.2

1969

7.410.

7,235

1910

1911

6,692. 9 4,082. 4

037

FOO 2,555.9

,248

4.4

alance at end of

1911

37,257.15

975

54,093.2

3,164.13

91

Various Regulations restricling this trade have been passed from 1910 on ards, and it has not ceased except for medicinal purposes.

COCAI HE.

Years.

Imports.

lbs. oz.

Exorts. 1bl. oz.

Local Consumption.

ibs.

Oz.

1909 1910 1911

68. 12 14b. 5 451. 11

441.

665. 12

60. 9

6. 3

6. 3

Trade in Cocaine has now ceped except for medical pur,oses.

FOUDS

GFIUM.

fears.

Laports. lbs. oz.

Exports. 1b. 03.

Local Consumption.

lbs.

OZ.

1907

15,383. 8

9,484. 4

.702. 2

1900

10,673.

8.246.

3,654. 2

1909

13,216.12

9,859.

3,387. 12

1910

7,467.

b.09.11

2,397. 5

1911

4,573.13

4,333. 5

240. 8

51,314. 1 36,922. 4

14,351. 13

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

(Sd.) R. 0. Hutchison,

Superintendent, Imports & Exports. 13,710)