CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8] — Page 284

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REG 5 SEP 16

Offices of Chinese Maritime Customs

for Lappa and District,

Macao, 17th July, 1916.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your

Despatch No. 2422/1916 :

asking for such information as may be in my possession regarding the shipment from Macao in April last by the S.8. "China" of 132 cases which purported to contain opium:

and, in reply, to state as follows:

Since the signature of the Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Portugal for the Regulation of Opium Monopolies in the Colonies of Hongkong and Macao which pro- vides for 240 chests of Opium which may be exclusively destined for exportation from Macao to countries which have not prohibited the import of opium, the Macao Opium Farmer has, apparently, been sending this amount of opium, after it has been boiled down, to Mexico, and it has always been the custom for him to ask this Office for a special permit to tranship this opium from the junk towed by a launch to the steamer in case she had to anchor in Chinese waters on account of tides and lack of deep water. The Official notice of such a shipment is reported to this Office by the Portugue se Superintendent of Opium on the following day.

The Honourable Claud Severn,

Colonial Secretary,

HONGKONG.