POISON PRECAUTIONS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7869, 3 August 1911, Page 6

POISON PRECAUTIONS

AN IMPORTANT BILL. The Sale of Poisons Bill introduced by the Governm-eont last night is an important measure. It contains two schedules of' poisons subject to its provisions. Those in the first schedule may only be sold by licensed chemists. The poisons enumerated in the second schedule may be sold by any storekeeper who obtains a license. This latter covers the sale of' poisonous substances to be exclusively used - in agriculture or horticulture or as sheep-dip or weed killers, - or‘the alkaloids of tobacco; strychnine preparations for the destruction of birds and rabbits, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, ammonium sul-po-CTanide, and preparations thereof specially prepared for photographic use, nitric acid, mercuric iodide preparations for photography, liquid preparations of carbolic acid and its homologues for use as sheep-wash, or for any agricultural or disinfecting purpose, and oxalate of potassium, neutral. A sale of poisons board is to bo created for the purpose of administering the Act It wiU comprise the registrar of poisons, the Dominion analyst, the president of the Pharmacy Board, and a person nominated by the Governor as representative of the storekeepers. No poison mentioned in the first schedule -shall be sold to any person, under the age of eighteen, years, arsenic and strychnin© must be coloured black and led respectively before sale, and no person shall sell inorpliia or cocaine or their salts or preparations suitable for hypodermic injection except when prescribed by a registered medical practitioner.

Every person, in charge of poisons who leaves them in an accessible *placo without bearing a conspicuous label '“Poison" is liable to a line not exceeding-