Restricting the Output World’s Narcotics
TO MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC NEEDS. (British Official Wireless.) Received Thursday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, May 28. An International convention opens at Geneva, to-day in connection with the efforts of the League of Nations to secure strict limitation of the manufacture of narcotics to the world's medical and scientific needs. ■ ’ The League spent many years in preliminary work collecting information on the subject. By last year, sufficient statistics had been collected to justify a beginning in an attempt to estimate the total amount of trade done in opium and its derivatives and in cocainj to discrinynate between the legitimate and the illicit; and to take practical steps towards controlling the world’s output. A preliminary conference was held in London in the autumn to determine the amount of cocaine, opium and derivatives which each manufacturing country might legitimately produce and a provisional quota scheme was drawn up in the form of a draft convention and this convention has now to be considered by the plenary conference at Geneva.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 May 1931, Page 3
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