A FAR REACHING JUDGEMENT.
The Chief Justice has given a farreaehing judgement on appeal affecting the sale of poisons to dairy farmers. It arose from the celebrated case of the Crown versus Scott, a Palmerston North veterinary chemist, and was the result of a suicide from swallowing solids of corrosive sublimate. These solids or pellets are composed of S'i grains of corrosive sublimate, a quarter grain of colouring matter to make them look poisonous, and three grains of adhesive material to make them stick together. They are used extensively throughout New Zealand as a disinfectant drench for cattle. The Department of Agriculture sends out thousands every year to dairy farmers. The result of the present judgement-will have the effect of stopping sales by post and compelling farmers to come to town to sign for them in chemists' books.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 March 1913, Page 4
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138A FAR REACHING JUDGEMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 March 1913, Page 4
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