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Proper identification was obtained by
stipulating that opium was only allowed to be supplied at the reta 11-shops to these who had an 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 licenses in areas with a licence-system, were set aside, as one was of the opinion that it was otherwise impossible to obtrin proper identification of persons,
Fy ho vy oxpenses vore incurred by
It this me sure and the supervision required to enforce it. was expected, however, that if the identifiertion was properly orried through with "dequetu merng, it "ould immeditely lend to a reduction in the turn-over, boc use the smuggling of rugiu- opium to her places is obstructed thoroby, nd loss will 180 be used loc^lly. Experionco hra trught, that depend~ble re- gistration has restrictive offuet on the glos,
Inter on, when 11 buyurs ^ru properly known.
on which the amount "hich nd provided with 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" as brought inte force at Cheribon, Djoodjakarta, Palembang, Menado "nd Knoonaser.
lionao-systom.
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Before it could be introduced elsewhere, however, the tempor ry prosperity in trde "nd plent tion circles crused the use of opium to incruse to an l^rming oxtent. One
which "Tould had therefore to have recourse to comb-tivo mo ́surus immodi toly lord to • diminution of the consumption in the runa "hich word not included "mongst the prohibition "rung, with or
ithout
If this und weg to bo "chloved, then on had to start in the first plˇoo by trking stops in thos o plccns, "her.. both the import tion of smuggled opium from outside of Noth.rlnds Indi", and th. cl-ndestino export of smuggled
As his rundy opium to the prohibition "rons or the gruntest. boon grthurod from the previous per graph, vury grunt difficulties ly in the way of introducing restrictive mesures in those plecus
It could not be nd still gructor ones in the unforcing of them. exported that system "hruby the destinction of opium is closely looked into, "ould immedi¬tely oporntons it ought
It was n frot, on the other nor that it would not lend to buscs, hand, that s long as better control of the destin-tigh of opium
to,