POISONOUS SCONES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 30 December 1909, Page 5

POISONOUS SCONES.

AMATEUR COOKS USE BORACIC

ACID

VOLUNTEERS TAKEN ILL

[press association.] WANGANUI, Dec. 30. A peculiar' poisoning; =ease is reported from Raetihi amongst a company of Volunteers in camp. During the absence of the cook scones were made by three Volunteers who used what they todk to "be 'baking-powder, but which turned out to be boracic acid. Before anyone had finished eating a scone he "began to twitch all over and lost the power of speech, and one man fell powerless to the :ground. After a ew "hours the effects wore off. Fortunately the effects :were proceed almost instantaneously after eating, otherwise: the results would have been more serious if more scones had been consumed.