CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911 — Page 166

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Administration of the traffic in Opium, and in Morphia

and other drugs in British Colonies since the meeting

of the Shanghai Opium Commission in February 1909.

By far the greater part of the traffic is carried

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on in the British Colonies and Protected States in the

Far East, and the questions involved are of little

importance elsewhere. It is accordingly considered

best to dispose first of the few changes which havƏ

been made in the legislation of other British Dominions

since the meeting of the Shanghai Commission and then

to state the alterations of the system of control in

the Far Eastern Fossessions.

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The Government of New Zealand, which prohibited

by law the importation of opium in any form suitable

for smoking, added a further restriction by statute

No. 30 of 1910 which enacts that opium in any form

which though not suitable for smoking may yet be made

suitable may only be imported by permit issued by the

Minister of Customs.

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