DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT

Grey River Argus, 9 June 1933, Page 7

DANGEROUS DRUGS ACT

SALES ENTRIES NOT KEPT. (P f ’r Press Association) ('HRlST(’llUh‘('H, June S. Laxity among chemists g‘no-rally. in compilation of the register require.l by Ihe Dangerous Drugs Act. was alleged by police, when John Harold Kam. manager of the I'i.itcd iTiondly Societies' .Dispensary, was charged with failing to keep <i proper register IL- p ended guilty and was lin' d £2 with costs Sear.-Sergeant Cox said that the rc cords showing the drugs so] I by defei dant, were found in December last, to b • unsatisfactory, lie was warned A later inspection was still unsat is factory and some entries were found to be faked to strike the necessary balance. Entries in regard to cocaine and other drugs were particularly bad. Soin . could not bp traced at all. so lax was the system. Counsel for defendant said he thought the charge could bp brought against every medical man in the city for failing to comply with thy require meits of the Act in making out pi--Magistrate Mosley said it was of fir>t importance that records be kept :i< < ulately.