CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 479

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be asked to appoint such a Commission, but that any stops fon)75 carrying out Tart 2 of the Convention which might be taken as result of the International Conference should not be held up whilst the Com:insica was reporting, and that Great Fritain should go to the Conference with a nettled policy, and agree that this policy should be enforced at onee.

Gir falsol: Delevingne said that 'alaya presented a different zspect to Yong Kong. Hong Kong bad adultted that it could ignora the ravezne derived from opina. This is believed was not the case in "layK. The fact that a large proportion of the ramral rovecue in Malaya was derived from the opim monopoly wear a Donstant object of attack, especially in the United States of America.

*. Pountney said canditions were entirely different in alaya, For one thing, if the epim revoans were done away with, there we be difficulty in maintaina ving the "reventive Servios mald have to be thrown over. while it

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was just possible that the Straits Settlements could discard theff opies revenue within say ten years, as their finazons were now in order, it was quite imposible for the Mlay States to do away wit the opium revenue in the eme time. He had examined every seurof of revenue, and had been unable to discover an alternative. had examined with interest #ir loolm Dalevingne's private_ suggestion to him that the opium revame should be diverted general revenue and devoted to the good of the natives. thought that this could be done. The epium revenue would, instance, be devoted to medical services and education.

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Sir Malcolm Dalevingne wanted to make clear that the suggestion which he had asked Mr. Tountney te consider wHE aveaning suppression in present olrommstarose to be regarde impracticable – the general revenue should surrender the profits of the opium monopoly in stages, spread over a period of yours

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