SALE OF POISONS.
AUCKLAND FIRM FINED.
AUCKLAND, August 31.
Smith and Caughey (Limited), drapers, admitted two breaches of the Poisons Act at the Police Court to-day — one of having sold a bottle containing poison (laudanum) without the proper entry being made in a poison book, and one of having sold the poison without distinctly labelling the bottle with the word " Poison."
Mr Thorne, for defendants, said the whole matter was a mistake. The bottles in question contained an American preparation, and although the defendants were licensed to sell poisons, this was the first bottle they had ever vended.
Mr Mays explained that the breaches were only discovered through a Chinaman, who brought the bottle along after having opened it, evidently under some misapprehension as to its contents.
A fine of 20s, and costs, was imposed on each charge.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 34
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