CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12] — Page 158

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no time table and it is impossible to find out when a ship is expected. Situated as we are with a hugh exterk of water to patrol and swarms of wall craft all of them prepared to sid in any swaggling venture for a very mall remuneration

are practically helpless, the only thing that would help midi be an expensive system of large sosworthy launches always patrolling outside the harbour, an absolutely prohibitive cost.

This department realised that with all our preceations we only succeeded in intercepting a small part

of the opium smuggled in, but the mounts proved by this seizure of papers to have been imported with perfect safety are altogether beyond our saloulations,

One syndicate alene imported in a year about £1,500,000 worth of opium, and there is mention of at least three other syndicates all engaged in smuggling into the Colony, one of whom is mentioned as having 5,000 šasis of Eamshan prepared opium returned to him at one time. After these revelations we must put the selling value of opium muggled into the Colony at at least £3,000,000 actual, this at the prices given in the accounts found, represents 72,000 isals prepared opium and 1,125,000 tsels raw opium, of the raw spím the propertien according to my calculation based en figures given in the papers soised is at least one fifth. The reverme therefore taking the selling prices of Monopoly Opium, lest #3,800,000 or a sum greater than the estimates for the present year for opium. And the real consumption of opium is nearly twice the mount actually sold by the Monopoly. It is indeed marvellous that we manage to sell so much, when our competitors can sell raw opium at £2,40 prepared at 14 or slightly less. These figures mist certair -ly put the suppression of opium in the Colony in a totally different aspect, and show the impossibility of centemplat- ing any further steps tomrds the suppression as long as the supplies of opium grow in China are se abundant and

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