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2398· What do you mean by registering all the smokers ?-Each smoker
should have a licence on which his photograph would be pasted.
2399· How would you know a man is a smoker if he cOllies along and
says he wants a licence ?-I would let every applicant have a licence.
2400. But everybody who smokes will not want to come and take out
a licence. Won't they send somebody else instead to take one out for
them ?-Those who have not a licence will not be allowed to smoke.
2401. What are you going to do to stop them from smoking ?-The
man who has not got a licence will not be able to get chandu.
2402. But the man who has a licence and does not want all he gets
can sell some to him surely?-When a man applies for his licence he will
have to state how much he smokes, and he will only be able to buy the
amount stated in his licence.
2403. Supposing he says he smokes a tahil a day when he only smokes
one chee; he would then have 9 chees to dispose of ?-The man. who overstates
his requirements would have to have the money to buy the amount.
stated every day; if he ·bought less, the amount on his licence would be
reduced.
it04. But if he is merely a buyer on behalf of people who do not
want to come and register, they would supply him with the money to buy
the tahil ?-There would not be very many cases of that sort.
2405. But licensing a man to smoke will not in itself stop opium
smoking ?-Gradually the smokers will die and some will go away from
this place.
2406. Dr. Galloway.-Supposing he cannot get Government chandu;
there is a lot of other chandu ?-Yes, but the Government will take care of
that matter.
2407. Chairman.-A man who has not got a licence is found with an
opium pipe in his hand, and it looks as though he had just been smoking.
What are you going to do with him? Are you going to send him to gaol,
and, if so, for how many months ?-Government will prescribe the penalties.
2408. But we want you, a leading member of the Hakka community
here, to suggest what the penalties should be ?-If the Government wants
to prohibit chandu they will prescribe the penalties.
2409. A friend of yours who is unlicensed is found smoking; would
you wish him to go to prison or would you wish him merely to be fined?­
In my own opinion, I think it would be better to send him to prison .
. 2410. Would not you send the person who was found drinking liqllor
to prison also ?-I£ the Government want to prohibit liquor, jllst as America
is doing now, it will be for them to prescribe the penalty.
2411. Do you think America is having any luck ?-I do not know.
2412. Do you thinl