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raw opium and the saving on that might be very cOllsiderable. Theil. I lihould<br />
say that if we are going to have Government retail shops, the tube is • much<br />
more presentable article for us to sell by retail than the present packets and<br />
pots.<br />
2288. D,. GallO'WOy.-Packing the chandu in tubes, of course, as you<br />
say, enables you to get more tahils of chandu out of a ball of opium. That<br />
would mean a much lower morphine content 1-Yes.<br />
2289. Your present morphine content is about 12l ?-Yes, approxi.<br />
mately.<br />
2290. Don't you think that that is an extremely high morphine<br />
content. It is much higher than it used to be ?-I think this question would<br />
be better answered by the Analyst.<br />
2291. 1 shan put one or two questions to you and, perhaps, you could<br />
get the Analyst to put up a memoralldum answering them. One is the present<br />
morphine content of our chandu. Next, I should like to know what is the<br />
morphine content of No. I Amoy smuggled chandu, and also of Dutch<br />
chandu ?-I shall get you the information from the Analyst.<br />
2292. Another possible saving would be in regard to the tremendous<br />
return of bad chandu which you get ?-We get back broken packets from the<br />
States, not from the shop-keepers.<br />
2293. How long can you definitely say that that chandu will last without<br />
becoming fermented or mouldy in a bamboo leaf ?-None of that is<br />
wasted; it is all re-cooked.<br />
2294. You cannot give any definite answer as to how long it would<br />
remain good in a bamboo leaf ?-I have always understood that chandu<br />
rather improves with keeping.<br />
2295. If it does not go mouldy?-But I thought the Chinese like the<br />
mould just as we like mouldy cheese. As far as my experience goes, the<br />
small quantity of chandu in a bamboo leaf packet does not ferment or grow<br />
mouldy, it merely dries up. .<br />
2296. When you are weighing the bamboo leaf packets, do rou include<br />
the weight of the leaf ?-No, we try as accurately as we can to gIve the nett<br />
weight of 3-hoons in a packet.<br />
'2297. You make an allowance for the leaf but no allowance for the<br />
vatiations in the weight of the leaf ?-We try to give the correct nett weight.<br />
2298. Do you get back as dross 10 per cent of the quantity of chandu<br />
you sell in Singapore ?-The answer to this question and my meaning in my<br />
previous examination (Question 109) is that I get back about 10 to 12 per cent<br />
of the amount of chandu sold to the smoking-shops.<br />
2299. There must be an enormous amount of drosl missing ?-Yes.<br />
2300. M,,,McLean.-If all the dross were brought back to you, what<br />
percentage do you think you would get ?-In the Federated Malay State •<br />
.they claim that one tahil of chandu produces half a tahil of dross; but my<br />
recollection of the evidence given before the 19o5 Opium Commission is that<br />
one tahil of chandu produces about 40 per cent of its weight in dross.<br />
2301. How much do you pay for dross ?-$4.50 a tahil for first quality<br />
and $I.50 for second quality.<br />
2302. If you increased the price you would get back more?-Y 011<br />
would need to pay more than double, $10 ()IJ" $II a tahil, I should think, before<br />
you made any big difference; and even then I daresay people would prefer<br />
to keep the dross instead of bringing it back.<br />
2303. Mr. Galloway.-Are you of opinion that most of that drOliS i.<br />
swallowed ?-I am quite sure nOlle of it is wasted. It is too valuable to be<br />
wasted.<br />
2304. Chairman.-YofJ will send us a return of dross purchased in due<br />
course ?-Yes, lwiJl; it is being prepared.
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