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be decided to appoint one. Similar

suggestions are being made to the

Governors of Hong Kong and the Straits

Settlements.

3. On the suggestions which

form part of the Advisory Committee's

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2nd Resolution

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I am to offer the

following observations:-

(1) Requires no comment,

(11) This policy was adopted in

the Federated Balay States some time ago;

the Governor of Hong Kong has also

recently agreed to do so; and inasmuch

as it would not materially change the

present policy of the Company, His Grace

hopes that the Court will see no objection

to its adoption in North Borneo. The change

will necessarily take a little time; but

His race suggests that it would be well to

proceed with it at once, us, apart from

the consideration mentioned in the Advisory

Committee's resolution, the complete

elimination

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elimination of the private trader

would, in His Grace's opinion, greatly

reduce the difficulties to be faced

when further progressive measures for

the control of the use of opium are

undertaken.

(111) is attractive, if for no

other reason than that its general

the adoption under the aegis of League of

Nations would at once remove one of the

grounds on which attacks on the Far

Eastern Colonies and Protectorates

have from time to time been made by

ill-informed persons or focicties. His

Grace is, of course, aware of une

difficulties in the way of the adoption

of a policy involving an arbitrary

restriction of the amount of Government

opium placed on sale, where hoarding and

profiteering are possible. Given,

however, a system of complete

Government control over retail sales

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