CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5] — Page 332

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9th March, 1921.

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FORM. DE HUHTHA (.62)

Lyrederosć Donjo

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of

your letter of the 20th December, addressed to His Excellency the Governor, in which you ask for certain information regarding the importation of opium into the Colony of Hongkong, and to express regret that this reply has been

delayed.

In answering your several questions I shell assume that by "import" is intended "import for use in the

Colony".

1.

The importation of row opium has decreased from 620 chests in 1914 (when the monopoly was established) to 180 chests in 1920 and 120 chests for the current year.

2. There is no importation of Turkish or Persian opium. I enclose a copy of the Annual Report of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports for 1919, on pages 11 to 14 of which will be found an explanation of the figures

which you quote.

The reduction of the revenue from opium is

3.

the result not of a policy directed towards extinguishing consumption in a set term of years but of the policy of regulating of consumption pursued by this Government, selling price of Government monopoly opium has been kept at a height which precludes its use in any large quantities by

the consumer of ordinary means.

The

4.

De Reverend Arthur Sowerby,

General Secretary,

International Anti-Opium Association,

PEKING.