CHEMISTS’ SUPPLIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 10

CHEMISTS’ SUPPLIES

DUNEDIN STATEMENT DISPUTED VIEWPOINT OF WHOLESALERS (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, May 31. The suggestion that the reduction of the cost of chemists’ prescriptions is a result of reorganised buying arrangements was denied by representatives of the wholesale druggists in Auckland in commenting on the reported remarks of a Dunedin chemist regarding the efforts of the retailers to put their house in order. They stated that apparently a continued effort was being made to saddle the wholesale druggists with all the blame for the state of affairs which the Government had ordered to be remedied. “No good purpose can be served by the remarks attributed to a chemist in Dunedin.” the manager of one wholesale firm said. _ Difficulties confront both the retail and the wholesale sections of the trade to-day, and the utmost unanimity and co-operation are necessary it things are to be put on a proper footing.” Wholesale druggists generally stated that they did not suggest that there were difficulties in the way of reorganisation. They considered, however, that bulk buying by retail chemists would not bring about the desired results, as the relief afforded to the retailers would be only temporary and the scheme would react to the detriment of both sections ol the trade, as well as to the buying was stated that the remarks of the Dunedin chemist gave the impression that the retailers had been able to reduce the cost of presenptions by 20 per cent because of some reorganisation in their buying arrangements. In the view of the wholesalers this was contrary to fact. They hold that the reductions had been brought about purely as a result of internal organisation by the chemists themselves.