CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 506

3

504

As such can be named: the hawking of opium

in the villages by the underlings of the farm, secret places of

by thousands, the sale of opium on sale, which could be counted credit in times of money-shortage, the contraventions on a large scale of the regulations relating to the forbidden areas.

III.

In the first place one endeavoured to reach the desired end, by organizing the Regie in such a manner, that no who were interested in the extent of the intermediaries were used sale and consequently perhaps inclined to encourage the use of opium,

This is the difference between the Opiumregb in the Dutch East Indies and the exploitation of the opium in the neighbouring countries and colonies.

The opium is sold by paid officiels, who are The raw opium is made not interested in the increase of the sale.

The chandu is put into chandu in the factory of the Opium-regie,

The tubes cannot be opened, up in metallic tubes of different sizes. without being damaged, and only unopened tubes are sold.

When opium is detained on suspicion, that it did not come from the opium-regie, it is examined in the factory where it is deterined, whether it did or not,

J

For those parts of the Dutch East Indies,

this where the possession of opium was forbidden to every one prohibition was maintained, when the Regie was introduced, with

These had relation to cases, where the prohibition some exceptions,

that it existed only on paper and the use of opium among distinot groups of the population had already attained such dimensions

But also in these cases wes impossible to exterminate it at onco, the prohibition was maintained for the other groups of the population. Apart from that"Opium-regte restricts itself to a passive attitude.

It avoided everything which could increase

its use, but it took only very few measures, which directly aimed at a decrease of the use.

In 1908, however, the Opium-regie was also utilised to combat the use of opium more effectively.