Fighting Drug Traffic
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In Hawaii
From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Aug.L2.
TTHE U.S. Federal Government is mak * ing such a concentrated drive against the smuggling of opium and other nar cotics in the Hawaiian Islands, which are regarded as a distribution point for North America, that the'retail prices of opium have skyrocketed. Mr. J. Walter Doyle, Collector of Customs in Honolulu, said that opium which formerly sold for 65 dollars per five tael tin now sells for 190 dollars.
He added that according to figures from the U.S. mainland, opium sells for 80 dollars a tin in Los Angeles; 90 dol lars in Seattle; 135 dollars in New York; and 125 dollars in Detroit, Chicago, and Baltimore.
Dr. A. Mills Parker, wife of Mr. A. F.
Mills Parker, of the Seventh Day Ad ventist Mission at Malaita, Solomon Islands, arrived !n Sydney by the Malaita during August on an extended holiday She is attached to the mission hospital at Malaita, and has been there for four years.
Mr. F. P. Archer, of Jame Plantation, Buka Passage, New Guinea, reached Sydney by the August Malaita.