REMEDIES FOR STOCK

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4008, 4 February 1938, Page 5

REMEDIES FOR STOCK

DISSATISFACTION WITH REGULATIONS.

Dissatisfaction with the attitude adopted by the Stock Remedies’ Registration Board to the passing ol stock medicines was expressed by members of the Manawatu .Provincial Division of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, which met at Palmerston North on Wednesday. The complaints arose from a letter received from the board stating that every effort was being made to trace the sale of unregistered remedies, and asking for the executive's help in thi enforcing of the Stock Remedies Act. The executive was also asked to supply, where possible, instances of unregistered remedies. “In regard to the opinion of your "executive that some remedies which have been registered are not effective, the board desires to inform your executive that all applications for registration of stock remedies are’ given very careful attention and treated on their merits, decision be ing arrived at only after consideration of the formulae in association with the claims made,” the letter stated.

There are now 650 remedies registered, one member of the executive stated, and when the board was con stituted it did not withhold registration from any of the remedies then in use.'The trouble was that the Government did not try out the medicines.

One member of the executive gave an example of a man who had sent to the board a medicine which he proposed to manufacture, and received an authorisation the following day. The secretary, Mr L. I. Plimmer, said that the new attitude of the board was to pass any medicine pro vided it was not definitely harmful and provided that in some cases a cure had been effected.

“In other words, they have slacken ed up in their requirements,” said the chairman, Mr H. T. McGleavy. “We can concoct something with sugar and water, claim a cure, and have it registered.”

The meeting decided to make an effort to have the regulations regarding the registration of remedies tightened up. It was felt that such remedies should be tried out before a registration was issued.