CO129-508-7 Opium on Macao market 10-1-1928 - 9-11-1928 — Page 33

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It is therefore certain that the ship was paid for

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doing something else than carrying the opium, either the embarkation at Kuong Chow Van was difficult, or the ship

was expected to make false reports of the amounts

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brought into cau. The s/s "ing Wo seems to have been the ship chiefly used, the Captain, a Portuguese, would be useful in dealing with the officials in Macau. purchase of prepared Indian opium, as may be judged by the price paid $8.15 per tael, was purchased from Kwong Chow Wan.

Purchase of Persian. see Annexe V.

The new Company took over from the Lee Ching Company 214 chests of Persian opium at the rather high figure of $3,800 per chest. This alone shows that Lee Hyson was absolutely certain he was going to obtain by some means or other the next contract, otherwise he would, as the Lee Shing Company have seen to it that he was not caught with such a large stock of opium on hand.

Owing to the fact that the figures in respect of two consignments received in 1924 and 1925 respectively are not entered till 1926 it is not possible to rely completely on the dates as the means of identifying the various consignments received. To certain identifications can be made in respect of the Gorgistan" and "Prominent, and it seems certain that the 660 chests mentioned under date of 11/2/26 were those imported by the "Mowinckle". The entry under date 16/2/27 without doubt relates to

the "Kumamoto leru".

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The entry under date 3/2/25

cannot definitely be assigned to a particular ship, but the Macau monthly return of opium showed 125 chests of

Persian