During the hearing of a slander action at the Supreme Court at Palmerston Sir R, Stout remarked that "until last year it was considered a proper thing not to repeat club "babble" outsMe^ — at least it was so amongst gentlemen."
Asked at Christclrarch concerning the patent medicine regulations, Sir Joseph Ward said that the misunderstanding seemed now to be satisfactorily settled. The principal firms were quite content to lodge a formula of the ingredients of their medicines with the Customs Department, but had been under the misapprehension that the formula had to be pasted upon each bottle of their particular specifics -which was sent to the colony. He had received letters from a number of tlie bigger firms expressing their satisfaction with the regulation as it stood m the light of the explanation, and) he anticipated no further trouble m this direction.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10304, 11 March 1905, Page 4
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