OPIUM REGULATIONS.
(By Telegraph.— Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Regulations under the Opium Act, 1908, gazetted to-day provide that no person may. import to or export from •New Zealand opium, morphine, heroin, or cocaine without the permission of the Minister of Customs. The following articles, declared to be opium in a form which, though not suitable for smoking, may be made so: Opium, crude opium powder, solid extract of opium, opium in mixture with other substances (if the mixture may be made suitable for smoking), liquid extract of opium tincture, opium sedative, liquor opium, wine of opium, or moist or semi-liquid preparations containing opium which are in form that may be made suitable for smoking. Both importers and exporters are required to keep a special book recording all transactions with regard to opium, and similar provision is made in the case of retailers who purchase opium in any form from an importer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 25, 29 January 1921, Page 10
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