THE DOPE TRADE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS PROJECT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 28. An International Convention open? at Geneva- to-day in connection with the efforts of the League of Nation? to secure the strict limitation ol the manufacture of narcotics to the world's medical and scientific needs The League ha« spent . many years ii the preliminary work of collecting in formation on the subject. By la-si year sufficient statistics were collect od to justify beginning an attempt tc estimate the total amount of trade done in opium and its derivatives and in cocaine, and to discriminate be tween the legitimate and the illicit trade and to take practical steps to wards controlling the world’s output A preliminary conference was held ai Loudon in the autumn to deterniim the amount of cocaine and opium de rivation s w hich each " maoufact nrin< country might legitimately produced A provisional quota scheme was d-rawr up in the form of a draft convention and this convention is now to be con sidered by the Plenary Conference a Geneva.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1931, Page 6
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