NARCOTIC MANUFACTURE.
SUGGESTED RESTRICTION. CONVENTION AT GENEVA. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 27. An international convention was opened at Geneva to-day in connection with the efforts of the League of Nations to seoure the strict limitation of the manufacture of narcotics to the world’s medical and 'scientific needs. The League has spent many years in preliminary work and collecting information on the subject. By last year sufficient statistics had been collected to justify beginning an attempt to estimate the total amount of trade done In opium and its derivatives, and in cocaine, and to discriminate between legitimate and illicit trade, and take practical steps toward controlling the world’s output. A preliminary conference was held In London in the autumn to determine the amount of cocaine and opium derivatives which each manufacturing country might legitimately produce. A provisional quota scheme was drawn up in the form of a draft convention, and this convention will now be considered by the plenary conference at Geneva.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18341, 29 May 1931, Page 7
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