IMPROPER USE OF OPIUM
VETERINARIAN FINED £5.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Aug. 0.
In the Police Court this morning Frederick Valentine, veterinary practitioner, was fined £5 on a charge of giving a prescription for a dangerous drug, tincture of opium, for purposes other than animal treatment and was convicted and discharged on a further similar charge. Mr. Harper, S.M., dismissed the charge of failing to keep a proper register of all transactions in relation to the disposal of the drug, pointing out that there was a doubt as to whether accused dispensed the drug from his own premises.. Evidence showed that accused had used 70 ounces of tincture of opium in the form of fomentations for the treatment of trouble with his knee.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1930, Page 11
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