THE PTOMAINE POISONING AT PAEROA.
A STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE. LITIGATION LIKELY TO ENSUE. THAMES, March 23. From enquiries made it has been ascertained that all the victims of the ptotraine poisoning oases on the Paeroa raaecourse have recovered. The Thames sufferers, though some were badly attacked, are all well. The. residents of Paeroa, Waihi and Hamilton are reported, also, to have recovered. It is stated that the tongues were boiled in a copper aDd allowed to stand all night. , It is believed that she action of the salt on the copper contaminated the tongues, though a strange circumstance is that the, persons who refrained from eating the tongues, and only partook of tea, were similarly attacked. Litigation is likely to ensue as the result of the occurrence.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8103, 24 March 1906, Page 5
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126THE PTOMAINE POISONING AT PAEROA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8103, 24 March 1906, Page 5
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