SALE OF POISONS
NEED FOR LICENSES. CHEMIST’S PROPOSAL. ROTORUA. March 7. In the course of a brief address at the Chemists’ Conference at Rotorua, Mr Udimind Smith, of Auckland, president of the Pharmaceutical Society, referred to the sale of poisons, and said it was a question which had occupied the attention of the society for some considerable time. Ho considered that an amendment of the Pharmacy Act was necessary to provide for the licensing of all persons handling the sale of poisons, and gave several instances of the dangers which arose from carelessness by inexperienced persons. When the society previously asked for an amendment of the law in tins direction, objections were raised by chambers of commerce and others who feared a chemists’ monopoly. Hut lie ridiculed the idea that chemists wished to go in for the sale of sheep dips or horticultural poisons. All they asked lor in the interests of public safety was Unit persons handling poisons should he licensed, so that, they would understand that there was more responsibility uLlaclicd to these products than in dealing with tea and sugar.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1932, Page 6
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