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VI.
EXISTING MEASURES 01' CONTROL 01' THE
USE 01' OPIUM:.
In all the territories in British Mala·,a the "Farm" system
has been abolished and repl"ced by the' Government Monopoly
System.
2. The Government Monopoly System came into operation on
the dates set out below in the various administrations which are
covered by our reference :-
In the Colony of the Straits Settlements
and the States of Johore
and Kedah
In the State of Perlis ...
In the Federated Malay States
In the State of Brunei ...
In the State of Trengganu
1st January, 11110.
12th April, 1910.
1st January, 1911.
1st January, 1913.
2nd March, 1917.
3. In the Settlement of Labuan the Monopoly System was only
brought into force on the 1st January, 1913, while Christmas Island
(an isolated part of the Settlement of Singapore) is not yet subject
to the Government Monopoly System. The opium consuming
population of Christmas Island consists almost entirely of
employees of the Phosphate Company operatmg in that Island, and
the Company practically hold!! the position of a licensed dealer in
prepared opium.
4. The importation of raw opium into bony territory other thAn
the Straits Settlements is prohibited and the light of import in the
Straits Settlements is vested in the Superintendent Government
Monopolies. Transhipment tra.ffic in raw opium through the Straits
Settlements is governed by the import and export system which
has been advocated by the League of Nations Advisory Committee
on the Opium Traffic.
5. The raw opium from which all prepared opium consumed
in British Malaya is produced is cooked in Singapore and rut up
into packets and receptacles for export to most of the admmistrations
in British Malaya. Prepared opium is also exported in bulk
from Singapore to Penang and Kuala Lumpur for packing in those
places.
6. The principal feature of the Government Monopoly System
is that the sale of prepared opium is vested in the officers III charge
of the various Monopolies. In practice in most of the administrations
the sale by the Monopolies Departments is confined to wholesale
business. In the Federated Malay States and the States of
Kedah and Trengganu the Monopolies Departments participate in
warying degrees ill the retail sale (See Appendices XXXV, XL and
XLI).
1. It will thus be seen that the great majority of the retail
purveying of prepared opium in the whole of British Malaya is