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in various Departments, it will
be essential to increase the
salaries of Shroffs and other
Chinese officials concerned with
money.
3.
4 Considerable
expenditure will also be necessary
in the near future on water
is
met
works. While these will be made
from loan funds, the charges
D
I have not here
referred specifically to Persia as this is an open despatch and such a ref. might be taken as a direct
w
hint that the new Persian Govt. monopoly intended to make use of its monopoly power to squeeze the consumers of raw opium.
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loand
on the lines will form a
permanent increase in the expendi-
ture of the Colony.
4. I observe that a slight
increase in the revenue from Opium
is expected.
Under present
conditions this is a somewhat
precarious source of revenue
owing to the difficulty of preventing
smuggling and to the fact that the
sources of supply of raw opium
are
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