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Raz Opium
56.
17.
Undr the Hague Convention, the signatorics aro to control the croduction of raw obium, duced a certain amount and under the n law the poppy
This country prod plant can only be cultiv tud undur license, (Otium Law, Section, 4).
57. The ran opium used for the properation of Rugio opium is nor obtained from the Government of India et a fixed crico, under the terms of en egrument roviding for a maximum supply of 1700 chusts pur car, From this a- mount, 1,850,000 tamlungs of Regie Opium are propered, Opium Factory.
50.
This factory, erected Ft a total cost of 1,300,000 ticals has worked satisfactorily si neo 1913. The machine Boiling Plant has a capacity for boiling and preparing 1800 chusts of raw orium per annum at a much low-
r cost than the old method of hand boiling. The packing plant has a capacity of 60,000,000 tubus per annum, tho amount of orium paokud depending on the sizes of the tubes issued,
The plant is designed to produce five different sizce of tubus, as follows:-
Tube N
N° of tubes to 1 tamlung
1
10
Woight of ocium cocked in hoons
10
Equivalent
in grains.
3.75
2
20
5
1.87
3
30
3.1/3
1.25
40
2.1/2
0.94
50
1.2/3
0.625
Annexe V. shows the mount sold in the different sized tubes during the yurr 2460 (1917-18) to B.E, 2462 (1919-20) Snuggling.
59.
Snugging is, of course, the gruntust difficulty hich a country attempting suppression has to deal with. If it or not for this question. any country rould be free to teko stups, horover Arratic, to deal with the internel traffic in ocium, It usually follos, however, that measures taken for restricting internal control re t once follored by the smuggling of opium from other countries. Opium is
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