DRUG HOUSES
REPORTED MERGER. AUCKLAND, Friday. According to statements made in the trade, a scheme has been prepared for a merger or association of the wholesale drug houses in the Dominion, which it is proposed to call the Associated Drug Houses of New Zealand. An essential part of the scheme, which will be submitted to the Government, is that retail chemists should be licensed, the idea of such a proposal being to prevent the starting of a new business where it is not considered desirable in the public interest. Under the scheme the prices of prescriptions and drugs would be put on a firm basis, but while questions of mass buying and selling are important features, there are many other aspects dealing with organisation. It is understood that the idea is that licensed chemists should confine their buying, so far as is possible, to the wholesale group of suppliers, while it is thought that protection will be sought from the Government to prevent the sale of chemists’ lines by other than registered chemists.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 August 1936, Page 2
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