AN OPIUM VICTIM.
The. case heard in Dunedin yesterday, in which a young married man, who was fined for smoking opium in a Chinese den, admitted having been a viotim of the ,habit for ten. years, draw® pointed attention to the necessity for stringent measures for the suppression of the importation and sale of the seductive drug. It is deplorable .to think that the opium vice is getting a hold upon our European, population; but those who are dwellers in the cities know it to be true. Tlie question that naturally arises is, how is it that, with all our police protection 1 , the law in regard to the importation, of the poisonous stuff is being flagrantly violated P
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10400, 22 August 1911, Page 4
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119AN OPIUM VICTIM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10400, 22 August 1911, Page 4
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