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Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 9

Regulations under the Opium Act, 1908, were gazetted last week. The regulations provide, inter alia, that no persons shall import into or export from New Zealand opium, morphine, heroin, or cocaine without a permit from the Minister for Customs. The following articles are declared to be opium in.a form which, though not suitable for smoking, may yet be made suitable for smoking:—Opium crude, opium in powder, solid extract of opium, opium in mixture with other §ubstances (if such mixture may be made suitable for smoking), liquid extract of opium, tincture of opium, sedative liquor of opium, w!>ne of opium, or moist or semi-liquid preparations containing opium, which are tn a form which may be made suitable for smoking. Both importers and exporters are required to keep a spesCal book recording all their transactions in regard to opium; and similar provision is made in the case of retailers who purchase opium in any form from an importer.