AN ANTIQUATED ACT
Frank admission on the Poisons Act in the annual report of the Internal Affairs Department:—"That nothing really effective can be hoped for in the administration of an Act over forty years old, and never in any way brought into line with tho modern needs of the Dominion, must be self-evident. Attempts in recent poet sessions of Parliament have been made to bring about not only a more businesslike measure, but also—what is still more tho essence of a Poisons Act— means by which the s*le of potent poisons may be reserved to the fewest possible persons under stringent conditions. There is no value whatever in a Poisons Act if the sources through which homicidal poisons can be obtained are multiplied beyond reason. There must be restriction oE salo, or, better perhaps, no Act at all, for then a false sense of security would be Temoved."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 4
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148AN ANTIQUATED ACT Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 4
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