CHINESE AND OPIUM.
"uie stringent law against the importation ofopium into New Zealand has driven Chinese opium smokers, to the-,,use of the drug in other forms. It is said that some of the irreclaimable victims of are making considerable purchases of opium pills. They are net too satisfactory a substitute, as a man who is used to the drug in its smoking form* can swallow with inpunity .an almost, unbelievable number of pills. The smuggling of opium- for smoking is now a matter of considerable difficulty, as there are no.direct steamers to New Zealand from India and China. Occa.sionally a few tins are got ashore at- the West Coast, and one may drift through to Christ church. The number of ttpium smokers here, however, is exceedingly small. They are almost invariably elderly • Chinese, who live in the outskirts <rf the'city. The younger generation of' Orientals, who have seen the harm worked bv the poppy' juice, are generally abstainers. '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10553, 8 February 1912, Page 4
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158CHINESE AND OPIUM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10553, 8 February 1912, Page 4
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