OPIUM CONFERENCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16662, 16 February 1925, Page 5

OPIUM CONFERENCE.

(Reuter’s Telegram.) GENEVA. Feb. 14. The second ‘Opium Conference read the draft of tire convention on drugs for the first time. Article 1 was maintained by 14 votes to 11, providing that a contracting party may authorise supplies to the public by chemists in urgent cases, of tincture of laudanum and doves - powder, but not above twentyfive centigrammes in any one case. An official message states : The Opium Conference/ agreed io members of a permanent Central Board for the control of narcotic drugs being appointed for five years. (Received Feb. 16. 10 a.m.) GENEVA, Feb. 15. After the second Opium Conference had completed the first reading of the draft convention of thirty-nine articles relating to more effective limitation of the' production and manufacture of narcotic drugs, a Finnish resolution was discussed, which proposed that the Council of the League be asked to draw attention at the forthcoming _ conference on traffic in arms and munitions, to the question of unlicensed importation of arms in relation to the drug problem. After the Japanese and German representatives had appealed for the withdrawal of the resolution, the Finn delegate agreed to defer decision. It is understood that the resolution aimed at importations of arms into China.