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Proper identification was obtained by
stipulating that opium was only allowed to be supplied at the rete 11-shops to these who had on identification-card with photograph which complied with requirements to be laid down. The objections which some have to getting a photograph taken, and which had formerly led to this not being demanded of all licensees in areas with a licence-system, were set aside, ng one ha of the opinion that it was otherwise impossible to obtrin proper identification of persons.
It
Fly hervy expensas vore incurred by this me sure and the supervision required to enforce it. was expected, however, that if the identifiertion was properly carried through ith "duquntu merns, it would immoditely lo ́d to
reduction in the turn-ever, boo use the smuggling of rugic- opium to her places is obstructed thoroby, and loss will ^lso be used locally. Exporionoo hes trught that a dopond-blo ro- gistration has restrictive offuet on the glos,
Letur on, when 11 buyers are properly known,
on which the amount hich nd provided with a personal licence they are allowed to buy is indicated, it would probably be possi-
and to the crews of ships, ble to refuse opium to new buyers
The Identification systen" was brought inte force at Cheribon, Djoodjakarta, Palembang, Menado "nd Incenseer.
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Before it could be introduced elsewhere, however, the temporary prosperity in trde and plant-tion circle s crused the uso of opium to incruse to an 1-rming extent. Ono
"hich would had therefore to have recourse to comb~tive mo"sures immodi toly lord to diminution of the consumption in the res "hich voro not included "mongst the prohibition "rung, with or "ithout lio-nao-system. If this nd was to bo "chieved, thon one had to stert in the first ploo by teking stops in thos o plecos, "hor, both the import-tion of smuggled opium from outsido of Nothurlnds Indi", "nd the clandestine export of smuggled
As he rundy opium to the prohibition "runs or the gr..^tast, bon getherod from the pr. vious per graph, vory grunt difficultius ly in the way of introducing restrictive mussures in those plecus
It could not be nd still grunter onus in the enforcing of them, exported that system "h ruby the destination of opium is closely look..d into, yould immodictuly oporto ng it ought
It was a fet, on the other nor that it would not lond to nbuscs, hand,
that as long as ʼn better control of the destination of opium
to,