TOO MUCSH OPIUM
A CHEMIST FINED, (Br Telegraph—Pree» AisoeiattrtJ Dunedln, February 22. At the Police Court to-day, Alfred Oudaillo, chemist, appeared on a number of charges under the Opium Act, in the hearing of which the Crown stated that from April, 1914, to January 15 last defendant had 1069 pounds weight of opium against the maximum of 20 pounds weight used by. any other chemist in tho city, .and against 300 pounds weight used in one year by a wholesale firm. Oudaille pleaded guilty to three charges, which set forth flat he had purchased fdr the purpose of sale of manufacture.tincture of. opium, and had disposed of it without entering particulars in his book.
Defendant accounted for the sale by the statement that he had - used the tincture for liniment, cough mixture, and a drench for horses. Defendant contended that he had disposed of in the shop 26,000 bottles of cough mixture. and also sold 5900 bottles of gripe drink and" 9600 bottles of rheumatic liniment mixture. A penalty of £10 was imposed on each of the three charges.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19150223.2.65
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2392, 23 February 1915, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
179TOO MUCSH OPIUM Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2392, 23 February 1915, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in