CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 582

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also be attributed that the Opium laws in Netherlands India are at present exceptionally complicated and have not yet been replaced by much simpler ones.

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VI.

Besides the laws governing opium, etc. for medical purposes, the following restrictions were also brought into force in 1911 :

1. A prohibition against the free distribution of opium, of the presentation of it as a prize at nubile festi- vities and popular games or on occasions when public 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, are prohibited from being in possession of chondu, The number of legal permits for Europeans at the end of 1921 was 9. On these permits 24.08 thail at the very outside was allowed to be bought.

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

the Navy in Netherlands India, The possession of opium was entirely forbidden to the Native sailors of the Royal and the Governmental Navy, As regards Native soldiers it was only permitted to those who had a personel partit. 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 using opium were but into schoolbooks. Besides, books with simi-

lar contents were distributed as literature for the people and were included in the Native People's libraries. The following figures indiante the amount of interest in it shown by the popu- lationa