TRAFFIC IN DRUGS.
REPORT TO LEAGUE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 27. The Prime Minister’s Department has received the following radio message from the League of Nations, Geneva: — The Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs has examined various questions, including the state of the preparatory work for the conference to examine the possibility of limiting and controlling opium poppy cultivation and raw opium production. It has approved the report submitted by -the preparatory committee of this conference, a.nd has proposed that the report should' be communicated by the Council to the Governments for remarks. „ .
The Permanent Central Opium Board, which has began its 35th session, will examine the situation regarding statistics, on the trade in drngs and discrepancies between the irnports and exports of certain drugs in 1937, and the,situation in the manufacturing countries concerning any excess of manufacture in 1937. The drug situation in Maca,o was treated in a special discussion with the assistance of the representative of Portugal.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 177, 27 June 1938, Page 10
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