DANGEROUS DRUGS
WAR ON ILLEGAL TRAFFIC , . CONFERENCE IN LONDON (Received Nov. fi, .10 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. Eleven delegates representing the Governments of countries where dangerous drugs are manufactured are sitting in London under the chairmanship of Sir Mnleolm Delevingne, dcputy'-Permnnciit Under-Secretary of State to the Home Office, considering an international plan to tight illicit dope traffic. The medical committee of Hie League of Nations already has arrived at the conclusion that the world's legitimate annual needs of medical opium, morphine, codein, cocaine, and hcroip do not exceed 84 & tons. Production at present is greatly in excess of that, and the conference hopes to fix the quota to be manufactured by tho various countries. If this is arranged the task of smugglers will be rendered vastly difficult.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 7
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