CO129-516-5 Policy of Hong Kong government on the purchase and supply of opium 25-2-1929 - 10-5-1929 — Page 15

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on 52836) and tacitly approved by the

Secretary of State. The new policy was

discussed at a special Meeting of the

Inter-departmental Opium Committee, which was

called for the purpose of considering the

situation in Hong Kong with Sir C. Clementi who was then on leave, and the Committee approved the policy. (see last para. of Minutes of Meeting on the 9th July, 1928, No. 12 on 52386.) The Inter-departmental Opium Committee consists of representatives

of the Colonial Office, Foreign Office, and

Home Office under the chairmanship of the

H. O. representative, Sir Malcolm Delevingne,

who is the British representative on the League

of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium and is

expert the British Government's principal authority

on all Opium and Dangerous Drugs matters.

It will be seen that the Inter-departmental

Committee only approved the present policy pending the result of the investigations of the League of Nations Commission which is starting for the Far East at the end of this

month. This Commission was appointed at the

instance of the British Government, and the

main reason for the suggest

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for suggesting was precisely

this problem of smuggling in Hong Kong. I

think we may well await the result of the

Commission's labours before making any further

change of policy.

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