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Board of Trade,

Gwydyr House,

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Whitehall, S.W.

28th June, 1916.

this was going to be done under section 43 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 ? Our

Solicitor thinks an import prohibition is essential to working the Customs part in the scheme : and there is no need here the

machinery of the section quoted being ready hand)- to resort to the Defence of the Realm

Regulations.

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3. On page 3, line 12, I should prefer omit the words "muggle or otherwise",

Attempts to smuggle (contrary to the ir. or export prohibitions) would be dealt with the Customs under their powers.

4. I do not profess to be a judge of ma

can or cannot be done under the Defence of th

Realm Regulations: but I am content to acre

the last sentence of the draft if it is endo

by the other members of the Conference.

Varymały ju

༦-ཅ་ཨ་རིའི་ཐམ་

Dear Mr. Robinson,

Mr. Baker and I have read the draft Einutes on

the Opium Conference which took place at the Colonial

Office the other day and we concur in them except Bo

far as regards the final paragraph. The only suggestion!

we have to make concerning the rest of the Minutes is that

a sentence might be added at the end of the last complete!

paragraph on the second page to the effect that the in-

portation of Opium otherwise than as provided for could

be prohibited under Section 43 of the Customs Lawe

Consolidation Act, 1876.

In regard to the last paragraph, however, Mr.

Baker concure with me in the view that the Conference

should give as their main reason for the issue of an

Order under the Defence of the Realm Regulations the

necessity for preventing evasion of the existing

prohibition of Export of Opium. This Prohibition has

been

:

J. R. W. Robinson, Esq.