CHEMISTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 272, 17 November 1941, Page 6

CHEMISTS

.There are many complaints over the time taken in having prescriptions dispensed. There is stated to be a shortage of chemists and that must get worse, for chemists' assistants work longer hours for no more , pay than grocery assistants. Whoever will waste their time and money to qualifj' under such prospects and when after they qualify they have to go cap in hand to the Bureau for permission to start business? So far as shortage of chemists is concerned, what else could you expect when the Bureau delicenses established chemists who are forced to find new premises, and the chemists* planning committtee has power to delicense rival chemists for the same paltry reason? Why should chain stores be stopped from supplying cheap medicine to the public? Is not the public to have prior consideration to the profits of pharmacists? The whole system is wasteful and uneconomic and to-day medicine is costing the public a tremendous sum. An ever-increasing army of Bureau officials and costing clerks have to be paid. No wonder the public is grumbling at having to pay social security tax all their lives for the ??^ e . a ew bottles 0 f medicine. Much better to regulate the price of medicine and abolish both tax and Bureau. ROLLO.