CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 651

the persons of truvollere, in birou pa, "vel:

in the inside of stuffed unimals. 645

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In such colonies uttmpts to

register conawera and limit supplies to these would be ineffective for the suma

time roistration nyatwa "muld ulso bo too cabrous and u.quitable in localities whore u lura proportion of the opiwn consuming population is migrutory, as is the cuse in the Raluy Peninsula, (British) North Forno, und long long.

For those countries the policy udopted is tiut of Mirnet "overment control of the import, manufacture, and listribution of opium with a vine to ultixute mypressiq when conditions perit, Thus, for o in Hong Kong the price of Jovor ent monopoly opium nas been successivoly raizēü from 06 u tual in 1914 to 1×50 a tuak) in 1918 at which it at present stunda, a palag which puta dxcossive indul once out of roach of tàn jority of consu.ora; of úrosa opiwa which is more dalətəriş its effects on ajokors has been incont. all public divane for tho consuaption al opium have beun closed, in order to rad the incentives to ajoking;; und mulus á sold in mull mounta so pucked us t it unsuitable for truns:ission and tå less liable to reloval from the guar

Muilar moucuros, varyi

bavɔ been udopted in the Zulay le in British borth "orneo.

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