Pure Food and Drugs.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10441, 15 June 1908, Page 2

Pure Food and Drugs.

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DEPUTATION, iw CHEMISTS.

(Per Umted Pre«v Association.)

WELLINGTON, June 18. / A deputation; of Federatled Asaaoiatf.on dhienuast* "- waited oh."the Minister of Healthi to-<iay itr> liay .before him r^soCuffcions panged by the conference. A' special request niade was that an advisory committe '^ pr* up in connection wiftit<t3ie work/jig and adminishwtioa of the Ptijrte 'Food arid Drug Afct, apd suib-.ntoeid fto the chemists, wlio; ahoglldl-biaiTa a representatLro on

The Mimr.)^? «ai^,thlat tlie res^ution of tlie oewnferencia -would receive his eaj-nest tsottsiderfrtioin. In the;' appointment of an aidarieary comm'.ttea on the lines sugiprestied-Jie. saw a good 1 many difficulties. afiany people thoiuij>Hit. tihiey should b© , represjeiiited, and the icfcimmtttee True' apt to become clumsy. Howeivter ■whether a coinmifctee -was set" uip or not the Government TTOiuJd. be igilad to have : th« nY aiß'taince of ■; fthe federation in.-seeing that regulations •were fair ;and reasonlaible. He did not. th/',nk-. Inhere was nnucli proTjaibi'lity of the Safe ol Poisons 'Bill this session. He ?prt> m;Bed to have amendments made in the (Bill to .meet the requirements of the dliemiiste whapei.they dispensed for veiteifinary surgeons.