Pharmacy Business

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 150, 10 June 1936, Page 7

Pharmacy Business

NO SOCIALISATION Assurance By Prime Minister GOVERNMENT’S AIM By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 9. An assurance that there was no intention to socialise the pharmacy business of New Zealand was given by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, in the House of Representatives to-day when the House was discussing the report of the Industries and Commerce Committee on the protests of New Zealand chemists against the introduction of chain-store pharmacies. The Government, said Mr Savage, wanted to protect New Zealand chemists and at the same time protect the people generally.

Mr Savage said that already many businesses were licensed, but there was something that needed regulating, and he thought New Zealand should have her own children trained in professions and trades to carry them on. But New Zealand did not want to ring-fence herself. New Zealand had a responsibility to her own people to train them in trades and professions so that they could stand on their own feet. It was only a matter of regulation, and he did not think that they should worry about the horrors of socialism. The Government wanted its legislation to be a true reflection of conditions as they found then in the country. A person who was goiug to carry on the business of a chemist should be prepared to enter an arrangement with the Crown that he was prepared to give proper and efficient service.