The Home Office suggest that, failing a decision in favour of total prohibition, the Colonial Governments should be pressed with such improvements in the existing systems as can be devised and at the same time should dissociate the profits of the opium monopolies from the general revenues of the Colonies and use them for humanitarian and social services outside the ordinary sphere of Government activities - the process to be spread over a number of years.
:
032
302
4
.!
E
:
{
ť
!.
}
30
The Revenue question -
The Home Office suggest that,
failing a desision in favour of total
prohibition, the Colonial deverments
should pressed with such improvements in
563
the existing systems as can be devised and
at the same time should dissociate the
profite of the epis nonopolies from the
general revenues of the Colonies and use
then for humanitarian and social services
outside the ordinary sphere of Government
setivities
-
the process to be spread over
a number of years.
$1. I may say at once that when it
vas first made te na I was mich attracted
by this suggestion which, if it sould be
adopted, would slear the Colonial Govern-
ments of any suspicion that their vested
interests are preventing them from taking
more effective action to carry out the
terms of the Convention.
The comparative-
ly small, compact and prosperous Colony
૨૨
of
244
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.