“A PROPER RACKET”
PATENT MEDICINE TIRADE ADVERTISING CONTROL (P.R.) WELLINGTON, this day. The patent medicine business had degenerated into a proper racket in which profits exceeding 1000 per cent were sometimes made, said the Leader of the Legislative Gouncil, the Hon. D. Wilson, when moving the second reading of the Medical Advertisements Bill in the Council yesterday. The bill was supported by other speakers and passed without amendment. .
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 2
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68“A PROPER RACKET” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 2
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