OPIUM VICE
3 STRANGE ARGUMENTS. i By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Perth, Jan. 9. The prohibition of opium, except for medical purpo:o3, has created consternation amongst Chinese importers with arriving consignments. A meeting decided to aek the Federal Government to tnforoe the prohibition gradually. ;It was urged that many Ohin.pio were addicted to opium, and if the supply were suddenly stopped these wretched people would seek solace in other vices. Ooe of the speakers declared that owing to opium Australian workers had found the Chinese st-org antagonists only at market gardrn'iig 6nd cabinet making. As soon as they had recovered from the effects of opium they would spread to other trades and before many years become like the Jews a wealthy eoction of the community.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 164, 10 January 1906, Page 2
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125OPIUM VICE Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 164, 10 January 1906, Page 2
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