CO129-516-5 Policy of Hong Kong government on the purchase and supply of opium 25-2-1929 - 10-5-1929 — Page 39

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No SECRET

BHO & Cofing

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG

25th February, 1929.

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Sir,

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AL OFFIC

COLONIAL

In your Secret (2) despatch of the 12th

April, 1928,' you stated that it would be permissible

for the Hong Kong Government to purchase Persian opium

to supplement the decreasing supplies of Indian opium

available to this Colony, so far as these are not

sufficient to meet the demand for Government opium

at present prices.

2.

The prospective allotment of Indian opium

to Hong Kong is as follows:-

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2. Mayraza

Year

1929 1930 1931 1932

1933

1934 1935.

Chests 171 147

122 98

73

49

24

After the year 1935 nothing will be allotted.

This

allotment was based upon the average quantity of Indian

opium actually imported by Hong Kong during the five

years 1922 1926 and a consequent maximum allowance of

220 chests in 1927, which since then has been

progressively reduced.

Now the population of this

Colony was estimated in 1926 to be 874,420 souls. The

present population cannot be less than one million souls

J8.4. 144/2622, 12, 6/31. (9420) m. 45.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

and

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