CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 508

To the delay in revising

which it will be necessary to diverge. it must also be attributed that the opium laws in Netherlands India are at present exceptionally complicated and have not yet been replaced by much simpler ones,

VI.

Besides the laws governing opium, etc. for

were also brought medical purposes, the following restrictions Into force in 1911 :

1. A prohibition against the free distribution of opium, of the presentation of it as a prize at nublic festi- vities and populer games or on occasions when publio processions are held.

2.

A prohibition against the sale of chandu to children below the age of 18 years.

3. A regulation whereby Europeans and those

assimilated

with Europeans, who have no personal permit, ere prohibited from being in possession of chandu, number of legal permits for Europeans at the end of 1921 was 9. On these permits 24.08 tha11 at the very outside was allowed to be bought.

The

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4. Mensures to keep out the use of opium in the Army and

The possession of opium the Navy in Netherlands India, was entirely forbidden to the Native sailors of the As regards Native Royal and the Governmental Navy, soldiers it was only permitted to those who had a personal permit. Now there is no longer a single Native soldier who has such a permit.

VII.

Indtract ons of counteracting the use of opium were also applied, Little paragrphs on the evils of

Besides, books with simi- using opium were out into schoolbooks. ler contents woro distributed as literature for the people and The following were included in the Native People's libraries, figures indicate the amount of interest in it shown by the popu lations