NO MORE "DIMPLES"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 7, 9 January 1943, Page 6

NO MORE "DIMPLES"

BEAUTY IN THE BOTTLE

PLAIN DRUG CONTAINERS

WELLINGTON, this day. Wartime standardisation is being extended to the medicine chest by the simplification of containers for medicines and ointments and by the elimination of fancy shapes frequently used for proprietary lines. This opinion advanced recently by the manager of one of the New Zealand glass works Is supported by Wellington chemists, who point out that there have already been indications of that change. Many lotions and beauty aids now made in the Dominion are contained in simpler shapes than those known'« as "dimples" and "panels," previously 'used for imported lines.

, . Brown bottles intended for poisons' are the least likely to be altered.as their hexagonal' shape and grooved sides make them easy to distinguish in the dark. Blue glass bottles for poisons have never been made in New Zealand and - to-day are unprocurable.

In the interests of efficiency and economy, bottles are made at regular intervals in large batches, so that concentration on the two, three, four, six, or eight ounce clear glass bottles and the opaque jars or pomades ranging from half an ounce to four ounces, which are the sizes most in demand by dispensing chemists, will result in a welcome saving of labour.

At the same time that bottles are in short supply through war conditions, the demand has been increased by the extension of the Social Security benefits to the free dispensing of doctors' prescriptions. Wellington pharmacies have found'that the number of prescriptions handled has almost doubled as a result.... "We have notr been forced tfo. the stage where we must give customers. two small bottles instead of one large one, but it is. certainly necessary to look ahead hi buying bottles," said the manager of a large cily dispensary.