CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 656

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To the delay in revising

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also be attributed that the Opium laws in Netherlands Indie are at present exceptionally complicated and have not yet been replaced by much simpler ones,

VI.

Besides the laws governing onium, 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 public festi- vities and popular games or on occasions when public processions are held.

2. A prohibition against the sale of chendu to children

below the age of 18 years.

assimilated

The

3. A regulation hereby Europeans and those

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

4. Measures 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 personel namit. Now there is no longer a single Native soldier who has such a permit,

VII.

Indirect means of counteracting the use of opium were also applied. Little paragrohs on the evils of

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

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