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.
