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RESULTS OF FUMES FROM PHOSPHORUS RABBIT POISON. ADELAIDE, Thursday. Gilbert Smith, son of W. T. Smith, a Cal Lal (N.S.W.) pastoralist, is in Renwark Hospital with phosphorus poisoning, eontracted when mixing I phosphorus with brpn and pollard to poison rabbits. He has been seriously ill, hut is recovering. William Haynes, of Moorna Station, has also been at death's door from phosphorus poisoning. Several other men have been stricken this year. Some stations are trying gasmasks on rabbiters. The fumes, if inhaled for any length of time, cause great agony, and ultimately dissolution sets in. During the next few months farmers and pastoralists will be poisoning hundreds of thousands of rahhits along the Murray, where large quantities of phosphorus will be used.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 150, 17 February 1932, Page 7
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123MANY ILL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 150, 17 February 1932, Page 7
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