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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 880, 28 July 1910, Page 6

The lion, secretary of the New Zealand Anti-Opium Association forwards a copy of a Ipfcter received from the superintendent of the International Keform Bureau, Washington, U.S.A., dated May 14 last. In which he states that New Zealand is in front of tho war in social reform, not quite up to tho State of Maine in tba matter of prohibition, but in its attitude towards the labour question, women's suffrage, and tho opium traffic, at the very front. It' would be little behind, he says, in tho matter of prohibition, but that politicians are able to prevent people expressing their' real sentiments by such tricks as the three-fifths vote. At a conference ol fourteen nations, to bo held at Tho Haguo in the summer,' an effort will be made on the lines of President Tart's proposal, to han, tho use of opium prohibited by international law throughout the world. Sammy to. Tommy (seeing a large plate-glass pane being put in): "Wo may as'well .eo home. They're not going to let it fall."- . 1