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Honourable Colonial Secretary,

Further information states that the

Harbour Master has been sent home to Portugal, that he

received a cheque for $3,000 for his share. The Harbour

Master's cheque is said to have been stopped. The opinion expressed now is that the Harbour Office and

Police have made a practice, for a handsome remuneration,

of escorting in a Portuguese Government launch the

opium farmer's illicit exports of opium.

sd. J.D. LLOYD.

Superintendent of Imports and Exports.

10th March, 1927.