The Quackery Bill

New Zealand Tablet, 4 October 1906, Page 9

The Quackery Bill

Mr. Ilornsby's Quackery and Other Frauds Suppression Bill was last week talked to death— slain by the favorite weapon of Samson. This was done, not because of any objection to the principle or even the details of the Bill, but for a political purpose 'quite apart from the merits of the measure. The law has recently been (metaphorically) giving the rinderpest to some smooth-tongued quacksalvers who, with the brains of a proto/.oon and the audacity of a Cagliostro, have been defrauding the simple-minded and the unwary in southern New Zealand. But it leaves these unprotected against many of the most dangerous classes of ' medical ' mountebanks and their ' remedies \ We hope to see a Bill on lines similar to that of Mr. Hornsby's pushed in due course through both Houses as a Government measure.