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Newspaper article

Title
Concerning opium
In
Northern Territory Times and Gazette
Imprint
8 February
Subject
Northern Territory
Abstract

Chinese storekeepers in Palmerston object to accusations of opium trafficking. They support controls on its usage. They also remind readers that it was the British who introduced opium to China in the first place and that it was their lobbying that resulted in the current anti-opium legislation in the Northern Territory.

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