QUININE STOCKS
CONTROL IN DOMINION
The Health Department has been given full control of New,, Zealand's quinine stocks, and the manufacture of numerous lines containing quinine has been curtailed. Quantities will, however, be released for manufacture as it is thought fit. The Minister of Supply, Mr. Sullivan, has made an appeal to all persons who hold stocks of quinine and its salts to conserve them for antimalarial purposes only.
Ninety per cent of the world's supply of quinine came from Java. Some is produced in South America, but it has not been on sale in New Zealand. Stocks in this country were described by wholesale druggists in Auckland as being in a "healthy" quantity, but they emphasised that the war in the Pacific would make it necessary to have large supplies to fight malaria.
It was thought that people who really needed quinine would be able to obtain it under a doctor's prescription. Those chiefly affected would be the users of quinine for colds and other smail ailments.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 210, 5 September 1942, Page 6
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