CARRIAGE OF POISONS.
Die Wellington Post says : —Attention has frequently been called in our columns to tho dangerous condition in which poisons are so often shipped to the colony from Home. A striking iustance of this was visible on the Queen's Wharf on Monday. The ship Earnock brought out amongst her cargo a hundred kegs of arsenic for transhipment to Wanganui. These were discharged, and the wharf and shed floor were plentifully sprinkled with the poisonous dust which fell in a cloud from the kegs if shaken or roughly handled. What may havo been stowed under these kegs in the ship's hold, or over what other goods they might be placed in transit to Wanganui or beyond it, we are, of course, unable to say. Fortunately, however, the attention of the Customs authorities has been drawn to the matter, and no doubt the kegs of poison will have to be made contents proof before they are allowed to be removed. Tho danger of poison becoming mixed with food products when it is shipped so carelessly packed is very great, and shipowners would do well to refuse all cargo of the kind not securely packed in proper packages.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1363, 4 June 1895, Page 5
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197CARRIAGE OF POISONS. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1363, 4 June 1895, Page 5
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