OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1928, Page 3

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

(British Official Wireless.) A MO YE BY BRITAIN. RUGBY, August 17. The British Government has placed upon the agenda for the coming meet- £ ing of the Council of the League of Na- , tions a proposal for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the , present position regarding the use of opium, and the present ineffectual ef- ( forts being made to prevent the smug- , gling of opium in the Far East. 'v The grounds for the proposal are y that all the efforts that have so far - been made as a result of the decisions of the International Opium Convention . of 1912, and of the opium conferences of 1924 and 1925, have . been largely rendered of no avail owing to the enormous amount of smuggling. This has reached such proportions that the Governments concerned are finding it difficult to implement their promises made at the first opium conference, to suppress the consumption of prepared opium within a period of fifteen years. The growth df the opium poppy in China has led to great smuggling activity, and it is the desire of the British Government that the League’s experts should make inquiry on the spot - to see what further measures can be \--taken- to control the whole trade, and thus gradually carry out the desire ot the signatories of the agreement, that within a given period of years y i means of gradual suppression the use V of opium , or at all events the illegal use of opium, shall be entirely stopped. * Smuggling is at present the P n " c T a ’ obstacle in the way, and it is with the object of studying this, and the means of stopping it, that the Commission of 1 nauirv is nsked foi. , Other Governments with territories in the Far East have replied supporting the British proposal. \ - appeal for WORK. , >~ RUGBY, Aug 20. vr,. Baldwin has taken an important the hope of relieving uncmlovment The Ministry of Labom announces that employment exchanges are despatching to some IbO.OOO employes an appeal from the Prime Mans ter' that each should help to solve the problem created by severe unemployment in depressed mining mens offering work to men and boys from those areas