WORK OF THE LEAGUE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19041, 15 June 1936, Page 13

WORK OF THE LEAGUE

ILLICIT DRUG! TRAFFIC

N UTRITI ON PROBLEMS

MANDATED TEHRITORLES

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Wireless news from the League of Nations issued by the Prime Minister's Department, as sent from Geneva on Friday, states that the second session of the mixed committee on nutrition appointed by the League Council adopted several recommendations supporting the endeavours to secure for populations a suitable supply of necessary t'oodst nil's, especially protective foods! lilts.

The ennimilieti asks the Assembly to recommend GovenvmcnfK m on-

courage and support in every possible. way the scientific study of nutrition problems with a view to ascertaining the optimum nutrition in each country, giving due consideration to the differences in national economic structure, •Innate and sources of. supply, and ,Uso to give full support to the health organisation in its inquiries into the widespread malnutrition existing in .he tropics and in certain Vur Knstern .-011111 lies.

PLANS PUR SUPPRESSION A diplomatic conference for exam Iniug the draft convention on the mpju-ession of illicit traffic in drugs ipened on Monday, the president being Dr. Joseph Unvburg of the Netherlands. Delegates from -i'2 States worn present. The conference proposes to conclude a convention for coordinating, on an international basis, ,hi' efforts of individual countries to suppress the illicit traffic. Tlte main features of the draft convention are that for the acceptance by he Governments of an international undertaking to provide severe ponal;ies for serious offences in such illicit traffic'; the exploration of the possitilities of evtraditioh, from one coun:ry to another, of persons who have committed serious drug offences; the •rention in each country of a central drice for the supervision and coirdination of measures taken for the suppression of the illicit traffic, and die provisions for close collaboration letwccn the central offices in the Vilnius countries. The draft convent ion s now being considered ill detail. REPORTS ON MANDATES The Mandates Commission has inished its consideration of the report if the French Government on Syria tnd Lebanon in the presence of an t (-credited represent:!live of the mandatory, and has also studied the United kingdom's annual report for 193i5 on .'alestiuo.

The main subjects discussed were mmigration, land tenure, education, lutonomons administration, the administration of justice, public health, finance, statistics and social questions.

The commission examined the annual

•eport for 1935 of rbo mandatory of to nth -West Africa, which mentions lie increased revenue, improved railcny receipts, and the growth of pro'tietioii.

Tlu\ ituimuii.tii UOTwrmient- hus-sign-d t\ rCncwal'-i'iir Jive years of. the tlelara'tion of acceptance of the eompu'lory jurisdiction of Alio Permanent, |durt of International .Justice in conormity with Article ilO'of the court tatute.