CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 650

ANNEXE VIIJ

TABLE SHOWING TOTAL REVENUE FROM ALL SOURCES, REVENUE FROM OPIUM, AND

QUANTITIES OF PIUM SOLD, FROM 1901-02 TO 1919-20.

648

Parcon- tage of

Price

to the

opium

Number of consum-

TO Yonuo

tamlunga

Yoar

Total Ro voruo

Revenue from

opium

. to total

Bold

ro venuo

of in ticals

por taslung. Vido

No to 1

Remarks

}

Ticals

$7,014,605.

M

.244 (1901-02) 36,157,963. 5.072,705.00 245 (1902-037 39,152,125. 7,000,637.00 2:16 (1903-0) 3,158,617. 6,972,760.10 12447 (1904-95) 46,046,404. 6,403,003,00 1.2448 (1905-06) 51,657,539. 10,260,961.00 }.2449 (1906-01)

7,693,669.37

1,173,366.32 2450 (1907-06) 55,626,532. 9,652,532.00 18.2451 (1906-09) 60,659,506. 14,514,453.04 -2452 (1909-10) 62,679,401, 11,253,950.49 2453 (1910-11) 63,509.161. 11,517,213.06 1.2454 (1911-12) 61,493,916, 11,697,473.45 2455 (1912-13) 66,877,377. 14,162,720.50 2456 1913-14) 74,399,662. 14,942,796.64 2457 (1914-15) 73,903,669. 16,190,101.17 2458 (1915-16) 77,296,015. 16,560,227.02 1.2459 (1916-17) 82,911,149. 19.342,167.53 1.2460 (1917-18) 86,494,066. 21,179,720.76 3.2461 (1916-19) 93,409,470. 21,444,476.00 2462 (1919-20) 96,066,961. 23,221,569.36

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Nato 1.

Noto 2.

Note 3.

Note 4.

bolew

1+.02 16.08 16.0

13.90

19.86

15.55

Farming Bys tom.

do. do.

do.

do. Vido also

Noto 2

bolow.

265,061

8

Vido No to 3 hulor

17.29 1,609,871

8

In this and the

23.65 2,102,774 17,95 2,076,797 18.14 1,794,561 19.02 1,664,735 21.18 1,901,155 20.09 2,037,906 21.91 1.907,104 21.42 1,613,944 23.33 1,905.733 24.49 2,046,120 22.93 1.859.686 24.17 1,900.031

8

8

10

10

11

12

12

13 13 15 15 15

previous year the

Provinco of Pukot vas still farmod, The whole country under Government control from this year onwards. Vido No to 4 bolow.

Sub-Farmo re olim- inated from this

year.

The price of opium to the consumer is that current in the Innor Provincos whore the greater portion of consumption takos place. Tho outor and Coast Provinces have slightly lower rates.

Tho increase of revenue was duo to competition among the bidders, roault- ing in the collapse of tho Farm in the following year, as explained in para. 10 of the Moorandum. The Farm was taken over by the Governmont in January 1907. figuros in cium 3 thus reprosont the revenue paid by the amor, and collo ctod by the Govermont, respectively.

The twe

In this year 'tho first one which Government control was oxorcised throughout the country), thostom was adeptod of including the cost of the raw opium on both tho rovonua and expendituro sides of the account. Thus the total ro vonuu" to year and the füvenue iron opium,. bath included the sum of Tes. 1,705,042, the cost of the raw drug. In subsequent years in order to avoid undue inflation of the accounts (and also fluctuations due to variations in the price of raw opium), tho amount spont on the lattor was daducted from the expondituro as well as tho roccipt side tho opium ro venuo thus being shown not, oxcopt for actual administrativo oxpon6os. If this sum of Tos. 1,785,042 bo doducted from columns 2 and 3 the resulting not figures will to Tos. 59,074,466 and Tcs, 12,729,412, Rospectively and the porcontage of opium rovenuo will bo 21.5.

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