WOMAN PHARMACIST

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 4

WOMAN PHARMACIST

New Zealander Abroad Miss Mavis Castle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Castle,, of Wellington, recently represented New Zealand at the Chemists’ Exhibition held at Westminster, London. The exhibition was opened by Mr. A. 11. Melhuish, then president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, who heartily congratulated the exhibition on the splendid display they were making. The exhibition had been organised that year under specially difficult conditions. He would venture to say that at no time in the long history,of that event had the organisers been beset with so many difficulties, and therefore he urged the visitors to make the exhibition the big success it thoroughly deserved to be. The opening ceremony was then followed by a luncheon over which Mr. Mirrln presided. Mr. H. E. Chapman, general secretary of the P.A.T.A., was entrusted with the toast of “The Overseas Visitors.” He hoped the overseas visitors would enjoy their visit to the exhibition and that they would go back realising that the Old Country, at any rate as far as the manufacturing and wholesale side of the drug trade was concerned, was catering for the new conditions which had arisen in recent months. They had with them among visitors from countries overseas Miss Mavis Castle, a pharmaceutical chemist from New Zealand, who came from a pharmaceutical family. They welcomed Miss Castle because her family had a unique association with the craft, in which her father, sister, three brothers and four uncles were all engaged. In New Zealand they certainly seemed to make pharmacy a family affair. Miss Gastie In responding to the toast on behalf of “Overseas Visitors,” thanked them for the way in which they had honoured the last toast. As a representative of the third generation of “potion mixers” of her family she felt it a great privilege to be present at the exhibition, and she was quite sure that her family and also the Pharmacy Board of New Zealand would wish her to convey to that gathering their best wishes for the success of the exhibition. Miss Castle thanked the many friends from whom she had received so much kindness while in this country, and said she would carry back happy memories of the many friendships formed. Miss Castle is at present on the staff of the dispensary at the Belgrave Children’s Hospital, London, and will be going later to Fitzroy Skin Hospital, Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, and the Institution, Bromley, Kent.