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on the last 49 chests with any entries in respect of
In the case of 14 chests under
expenses of import.
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date 30/8 the fees are stated to have been paid in
advance of arrival. It is impossible to be quite certain how much opium is represented by the entries for
this yeer.
The Government were paid for 90% chests, but it
looks probable from the details iven in Annexe III that
a good many more were actually imported, the total imports may have been as much as 174 chests.
Under the year 1925 no entries appear for
Indian opium. But under the year 1926 under the date 2nd February there are 4 entries for large amounts of Indian opium, which are known to have arrived in 1924 and 1925 from Persia since the amounts agree mostly with those reported by H.B.M. Resident at Bushire but not with the reports from the Macau Government, except in the case of the 190 chests of the S/S "Mowinckle". The other entries for this year in respect of Indian opium purchases from Kwong Chow Wan agree fairly closely with the figures mentioned in the report for this year made by Portugal to the League of Nations.
The great rise in price for opium bought from Kwong Chow Wan is to be noted, from $6,125 in June to $9,840 in December. The price also remained high in 1927. It is also to be noted that the freight paid from Kwong Chow Wan was exorbitant viz, $150 per chest for a voyage taking 24 hours or a little more according to the weather.
The freight from the Persian Gulf was only $175 per chest, and from Calcutta to Hong Kong is only 100 rupees.
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