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标题：The Sticky Problem of Opium Revenue
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作者：Diana S kim ; Diana S kim
期刊名称：BiblioAsia
印刷版ISSN：0219-8126
出版年度：2020
卷号：16
期号：3
页码：10-15
语种：English
出版社：National Library Board
摘要：On 16 september 1952, the government in Singapore found itself in a delicate situation overthe sum of $55 million. This money was sitting in the Opium RevenueReplacement Reserve Fund, an entity set up in 1925 that contained nearly 30 years' worth of revenue collected by the British colonialauthorities from legal opium sales in Singapore. It seemedreasonable, opined one member of the Legislative Council, Charles Joseph Pemberton Paglar, to spend at least part of the money raised fromthe drug to helpthose suffering from its ill effects.