DRUG FASCINATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17110, 15 March 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

DRUG FASCINATION.

'SUGGESTED WAR MEMORIAL FOE AUCKLAND: DESIGN OP A MONUMENT PROPOSED TO BE ERECTED ON THE OLD DOCK SITE IN STURDEE STREET, WHICH HAS BEEN OFFERED TO THE CITY BY THE HARBOUR BOARD.

The Harbour Board baa decided to hand orer .the old Auckland dock site tq the City Council, with the prorision that a war memorial shall be erected on it, at a cost of not less than £20,000.. The design reproduced has been prepared by the acting engineer of the board, Mr. D. Holderness.

" WEATHER FORECAST FOR ALL NEW zkaua«u. The atmosphere is heavily charged, and local thunderstorms may be expected in all parte. A severe disturbance called - Bone Dry- threatens but the «snl« cannot be determined before April 10, after which date there is a possibility of a long drought. Meantime there mil be a Continuance of axisUng coupons, accompanied by many - spot«."-T.L. _ From WmH

pilots had arrived in France it went across and landed at the Reception Park, and, without stopping the engines, the pilots climbed in, and within half-an-hour were back again in England. There were usually 17 or 18 pilots on board, and the time crossing the water was principally passed in playing cards, reading, or not infrequently sleeping! Machines were taken across in all kinds of weather, and if there was a shortage overseas if any particular type due to casualties, volunteers would take over reinforcements through fug, gules or rain. There wero occasions when it was necessary to put out a special patrol of boats in case of emergency, but the fighting squadrons were never let down.

—«»- TWO TYPES OF VICTIM. Victims of the drug habit may be divided into two clksss—those who have contracted a craving for soothing drugs while suffering from a painful illness and those who resort voluntarily to drugs in order to derive a new sensation. Patients admitted into institutions which specialise in the drug cure are for the most part composed of the first class, and under skilled treatment they can be cured. In the case of neurotic seekers after excitement drug<> become more of a permanent habit and the constitution is almost invariably destroyed. Dr. Mary Scharlieb, the well-known woman pathologist, said: "Many women find a, strange fascination in doping themselves, and terrible harm mav be caused by having drugs easily at hand in the homo. The knowledge that a certain, if temporal;,', cure lor pain or sleeplessness is within reach proves too tempting, and accidents, and even tragedies, are caused in consequence. The question of a cure depends entirely on the strength of mind possessed by the patient, 'and, "of course, on the length of time devoted to the habit." She agreed that the voluntary and involurtary victims arc two distinct "classes, and _ declared that the lamentable increase in the drug habit threatens to become a national calamity. Inquiries show that the traflic in cocaine, morphine, and herein is largely in the hands of that section of the swell mob who thrive on illicit gambling, blackmailing, mid the white slave traffic. They easily find customers, for ore of the peculiarities of the drug habit is t.'iat confirmed victims are eager to introduce the practice to others, "and by exaggerating its curative virtues' and stimulating properties induce the unwary to fall iuto the same pit of ! inevitable disease and depression.