MEDICAL SUPPLIES
NEW ZEALAND MATERIALS
(P.A.)
AUCKLAND, This Day,
Mr. Sullivan, Minister of Supply, referred today to research being undertaken for the production from medicinal plants and seaweed in New Zealand of certain drugs and chemicals previously obtained from abroad. Important medicinal plants were being propagated from imported seeds, and the possibility of using certain varieties of seaweed as a source of potash and of other products, such as carrageen and agar agar was being actively investigated.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 127, 31 May 1941, Page 11
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77MEDICAL SUPPLIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 127, 31 May 1941, Page 11
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