QUACKERY AND FRAUDS PREVENTION BILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8362, 19 February 1907, Page 7

QUACKERY AND FRAUDS PREVENTION BILL.

(From Our London Correspondent). LONDON, January 4. Mr W. P. Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand, has not yet consented to receive a deputation of the manufacturers of patent medicines and patent articles, who may be so much affected by the New Zealand "Quackery and Other Frauds Prevention Bill." On December 20th a deputation was received by the Agent-General for Victoria. I have received a communication from affirm whose name is a household word over here, and who are the proprietors of a certain article which is of the greatest service for many different uses, and who object very strongly to submitting their formula to any body of persons, Government or otherwise. They say it will be quite impossible to comply with the regulations of the Bill, and should any Act come into force which would require the disclosure of the formula, it would mean the stoppage of shipments to your colony. The idea over here, generally, prevails that the proposed legislation would be very useful to detect and keep out the thousand and one quack medicines, and "fake panaceas, "pain killers," etc., which are perhaps mure pushed m New Zealand than in the Old Country, but at the same time it might be a very real and unjust hardship to the makers of genuine medicines, and household remedies, whose purity and efficacy are above suspicion.