CORRESPONDENCE.
MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENTS BILL.
TO THE EDITOR. Sit, —Last night’s “’Star ’ contained the announcement of another turn of the screw in the liberties and freedom of the people. More of the Gestapo legislation is to be introduced for the suppression of the advertising of medical products and medical treatment. What is the object of this legislation at a time when doctors are so busy that they do not know which way to turn—can hardly get their night’s sleep for the numerous calls due to the shortage of physicians? Is it a fair thing to put difficulties in the way of getting additional products at a time when there is so much call for thorn ? To my knowledge, there have not been a dozen or so fresh medical products placed on the advertising market within the last two years, and the purchase of these remedies is now going to be made much more difficult because of a fresh installation of red tape. There is no move need for this new “ quack ” medicine • Bill to-day than there was six years ago, and at a most inopportune time this most undesirable legislation is being introduced
There is a suggestion that this new Act is designed to a considerable extent for the purpose of curtailing the power of the newspapers. Those newspapers derive a considerable income from medical advertising, and by the reduction of this income the power of the Press will naturally be decreased, thereby enabling the Government to get a firmer strangle-hold on the liberties of the Press. I think we have had enough of this kind of Government, and the sooner we have a change the better for tho Dojninion. What between compulsion, restriction, and licensing and all that kind of thing, the people of New Zealand are being treated as nitwits and half-cracked individuals. I, for one, dislike this Gestapo style of handling public affairs, and I think the sooner the business world takes bold of the position the better for the people.—l am, etc., A Business Man. October 16.
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Evening Star, Issue 24330, 20 October 1942, Page 4
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340CORRESPONDENCE. MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENTS BILL. Evening Star, Issue 24330, 20 October 1942, Page 4
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