MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 105, 30 October 1942, Page 4

MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENTS

(P.A.) DUNEDIN, October 29. j "The Medical Advertisements Act; does not come into operation till the beginning of the year," said the Minister df Health (Mr. Nordmeyer) tonight. "Time has thus been allowed to enable manufacturers to terminate their advertising contracts and to change their labels, etc., where these are likely to offend."

Asked whether the personnel of the board had yet been selected, the Minister said that an announcement would not be made for some little time. He indicated, however, that the members: would be chosen for their scientific knowledge judicial capacity. When invited- to comment- on; the suggestion of the Dunedin • Manufacturing Chemists Group that provision.; should be made ior appeals; Mr. Nord-i meyer said he thought that this jwasscarcely necessary, as it was ■.-intended), to appoint a pharmaceutical chemist as one of'the members. As the com-,' mittee would make its decisions on fact, he added, it was hardly necessary to set up a further board to reconsider its decisions.

A meeting of Diinedin ■ manufacturing chemists today carried the following resolution:—"ln the opinion of the Dunedin Manufacturing Chemists Group, the Twedieal -Advertisements Act is a ver: necessary measure, but provisinji should be made for everyone to lonve the right of appeal, as tn« Act ?is it stands does not savour of, British Justice. It was decßted- to ask the New Zealand Manufacturer^.. Federation ton place the-v Jews-of the group-before th#J Government, - i •' -<