In June 1901 the Governor-General merged the salt and camphor monopolies and the opium manufacturing office into a single Monopoly Bureau. The bureau controlled the production and sale of opium, salt and camphor, and its later red-brick headquarters in Taipei became a landmark. Opium remained a state monopoly until 1945.[1]
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