VETERINARY CLUB
MEMBERSHIP CLOSED
NO VETS AVAILABLE
INCREASE IN TURNOVER
“ Despite all our efforts we have been unable to secure a second veterinarian. On two occasions for short periods, temporary help has turned up, but both gentlemen have, on second thoughts, preferred the comforts of a forty-hour week and are now esconsced behind racks of testtubes at Wallaceville. ’ stated Mr J. IL Robins, veterinary surgeon to the Farmers’ Veterinary Club, Ngatea, when making his report to the annual meeting 1 held recently in Ngatea. Mt Robins said that the club membership had increased to the all high number of 400 at which stage the club had to close its membership. The area of the territory served has been increased but the club was not able to accept many new memoers from the new area.
The speaker went on to state that the farmers in Waihi had formed the nucleus of a club which would be either a branch of the Ngatea club or a separate club. In visits and advice he had given what assistance and time he was able to spare. Mr Robins drew members’ attention to the very great increase in the turnover of the club’s trading which had risen from £1620 to £4684, though the prices charged for the medicines sold had been reduced. The result of this policy had been to reduce the profit from £303 to £215. ,
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 58, Issue 4144, 8 June 1949, Page 12
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232VETERINARY CLUB Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 58, Issue 4144, 8 June 1949, Page 12
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