SALE OF OPIUM.
A CHEMIST FINED. By Telegraph— Press Association. Dunedin, Last N ight. Henry Louis Gallien, a chemist, wat fined a total of £3O on three chargei of breaches of the Opium Act. The collector of customs said defend ant was charged with selling above the legal weekly quantity of one ounce o. tincture of opium, and on five occasions during the past six months this occurred. Many of the entries in his retailers’ opium book were regarded with suspicion, large quantities of the tincture being written off as manufacture* into medicines, which he failed satisfactorily to account for during the last year or two, defendant’s consumptioi of the tincture being about 1460 ounce* every six months or from ten to twenty times the quantity used individually by other chemists. ‘ The defence was that errors had been made by inadvertence, and that defendant sold large quantities of eattle drench.
The collector stated that defendant had been vainly invited to produce' any evidence with regard to cattle drenches. The Magistrate’s fine was the maximum.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1922, Page 4
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174SALE OF OPIUM. Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1922, Page 4
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