CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 580

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As such can be named: the hawking of opium

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

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

III.

In the first place one endeavoured to reach the desired and, by organizing the Regie in such a manner, that no Ee mediaries were used, who were interested in the extent of the

ale and consequently perhaps inclined to encourage the use of

ium,

This is the difference between the Opiumregb

in the Dutch East Indies and the exploitation of the opium in the Eeighbouring countries and colonies.

The opium is sold by paid officials, who are

at interested in the increase of the sale. The raw opium is made nto chandu in the factory of the opium-regie. The chandu is put

In metallic tubes of different sizes. The tubes cannot be opened, ithout being damaged, and only unopened tubes are sold,

When opium is detained on suspicion, that it

id not come from the opium-regie, it is examined in the factory Phare it is determined, whether it did or not.

For those parts of the Dutch East Indies,

this re the possession of opium was forbidden to every one, ihibition was maintained, when the Regie was introduced, with ...c exceptions. These had relation to cases, where the prohibition xisted only on paper and the use of opium among distinot groups

that it the population had already attained such dimensions

But also in these cases 9 impossible to exterminate it at once. The prohibition was maintained for the other groups of the population. Beart from that Opium-regie restricts itself to a passive attitude.

It avoided everything which could increase but it took only very few measures, which directly aimed a decrease of the use.

Hts use,

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