VITAL PROBLEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 9

VITAL PROBLEMS.

League Plans for Curtailment Of Drug Traffic. NUTRITION RESEARCHES. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, June 12. The second session of the Mixed Committee on Nutrition, appointed by the League of Nations Council, adopted several recommendations supporting endeavours to secure a suitable supply of necessary foodstuffs, especially protective foodstuffs, according to wireless news received by the Prime Minister's Department from Geneva. The committee asks the League assembly to recommend that the Governments encourage and support every possible method of scientific study of nutrition problems with a view to ascertaining the optimum of nutrition for each country, giving due consideration to differences of national and economic structure, climate and sources of supply; also, to give full support to the League's health organisation in its inquiries into widespread malnutrition existing in the tropics and certain Far East countries. A diplomatic conference for examining the draft convention on suppression of illicit traffic in drugs opened 011 Monday under the presidency of M. Liniburg (Holland). Delegates from 42 States are present. The conference proposes to conclude a convention co-ordinating on an internatioal basis the efforts of individual countries to suppress illicit traffic.

The main features of the draft convention, now being considered in detail, are the following:—Acceptance by the Governments of an international undertaking to provide severe penalties for serious offences in illicit traffic; possibilities of extradition from one country to another of persons responsible for serious drug offences; creation in each country of a central office for supervision and co-ordination of measures taken for suppression of such traffic; and provisions for close collaboration between these central offices.

MANDATE FAILED? German Residents Dragooned By Berlin. ! ' PERSECUTION OF FAMILIES. (Received D.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, June 12. A judicial commission recommends that the League of Nations mandate of the former German South-West Africa bo incorporated in the Union of South Africa. It considers the present form of government a failure. The commission considers that Nazi activities render the present Administration impossible. The population is dragooned by orders from Berlin, and the swastika is displacing the Union flag. Recalcitrant Germans are reported to Berlin, which persecutes their families living in Germany. GENEVA CONSIDERS. REPORTS ON MANDATES. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, June 12. The Mandates Commission of the League of Nations finished its consideration of the report of the French Government on Syria and Lebanon in the presence of an accredited representative. It also studied the British report for 1935 011 Palestine, the main points under discussion being immigration, land tenure, education, autonomous administration, justice, public health, finance, statistics and social questions. The commission will examine the Union of South Africa's report on Southwest Africa, which mentions increased revenue, improved railway receipts and growth of production.