BUSHMEN POISONED
CAMP COOK’S MISTAKE
TJ X WBOXCLY LABELLED
(Per Press Association)
Whangarei, Feb. 12. Mistaken labelling involved. 11 biishmen in a poisoning incident at Foster and Telifer’s mill at Wliangaruru on Saturday. The catnp cook used part of the contents of a tin marked “egg puivder“ to mix with pancakes, wHicli formed portion of tlie midday meal. Three hours later serious symptoms appeared among the partakers, four whites, and seven Maoris, all of whom vomited, blood more of less proiusely. It then transpired that the supposed egg powder was actually sheep dip, one of the constituents of which, is arsenic. Two men who were tlie worst affected, Henry Leslie and Edmund Allen, of Helena Bay, were brought to the Whangarei Hospital at 2 o’clock yesterday morning and later on were dijscl.hrged. i
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 14 February 1929, Page 7
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