CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 285

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The contract betwem official and private unprofudioss statements cannot be better illustrated than by reprodusing the *Thite Paper" account of the oplim condition in British North borneo, and that of itr, Owen Rutter who has lately published a book entitled "ritish Fart Sh. Rafmag", Au får Tout Ridgeway, kresident of the British Ber‍th Hernan Chartered Company, gåYOG the book his approval, may nocept the staimente therein

as authoritative.

Some quotations from ?r, Owen Kušterla book)

"In 1915 the Chartered Company, as the request of the Colonial office, toak rer the opiam traffic, and new bityɛ direct from India, selling at the ratés laid down in Labuan and the straits Dettlements te lisensed deniers. The traffic is carefully supervised and the syâum is only sold to the Chinese adult population mong which the annual salomyśleni everages 18.2 oz. Then soew's a muggestive Pomark, "Apart from the point of view of parsana inetorted in stamping out opium-mwaking, there is not very to be said against the Čompany's trade in the drug." The Chinese pepulation is 38,000

the ammal consumption per bond is 15,3 on or 1,50 graina, we should like to know how many Chinese unakura the

AFVOT VARking "As to spím making itself it is nénith

a vise,but 43 is one which, practised within Lâmite, in mot saath more harmful than drinking spirita“. Jo are told that

*Jeventy per seus of the total revenue of the territory

the houding of Chadema nad xcise. It is, from the

reholders' point of view, the most important branch of the Service JITHOUT IT THORN BULD BE NO NIVID="M". There you have

it, naked and uzualumned. is reminds me of rowerk by a maribe

of the Changhai Council in the s34 daga "Ye e in the

fortunate position of being able to make a profit out of the vises as well as the virtues of the Chinese people". Total

revamaa of Wisinh North Borneo #420,888; received from Beráne

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