DRUG FIENDS.
MANY IN SYDNEY
NEW BUREAU AT WORK
SYDNEY, March 26. Recent activities of the drug bureau, a branch of the Police Department, established by tho New (South Wales Police Commissioner, to watch tho drug traffic, and co-ordinate information regarding traders and addicts, show that an enormous amount of men and women are taking drugs in Sydney. s Ono case is on record where a young woman, craving for more cocaine, which in tho main is sniffed through the nose by tho adict, took a quantity of the snuff and later found that tho membranes at the back of her nose and throat had been lacerated. A medical man discovered that tho cocaine had been mixed with ground glass or some equally gritty substance, and this had done irretrievable harm to her noso and throat. This week the premises of Burroughs, Welcome and Company, druggists, were broken into and some hundreds of pounds’ worth of cocaine, morphine, and opium tablets were stolen, as well as a number of syringes. This robbery is believqd to have been the work of the “dope” ring in Sydney. Detectives arrested two men in the city on Wednesday night and found in their possession a bag full of drug 3, believed to have been stolen from a country chemist, whose place was ransacked a few days ago. They were charged with having stolen goods in their custody. Simultaneous raids on other places in the city this week resulted in two other arrests.
At one place tho detectives found a young woman under tho influence of drugs, recovered a quantity of cocaine in her possession, and found a revolver in her handbag. She was charged in connection with tho unlicensed revolver, for there is no charge to cover the possession of tho cocaine, which was confiscated by the police. At another houso they arrested a man, also drug ridden, who had stolen property in his room, and another loaded revolver. He, too, was charged, and hidden under his mattress tho police found opium tablots. Tho Government is being moved to immediately tighten the laws relating to the possession of unlicensed drugs, so that the work of tho bureau may not be hampered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 10
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367DRUG FIENDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 10
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