INCREASES UNNECESSARY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1296, 12 September 1914, Page 4

INCREASES UNNECESSARY.

POSITION IN AUCKLAND. TJio action of the wholesale houses in raising the prices of drugs and goods to chemists has formed the subject of a number of communications which Mr D. Teed, a member of the New Zealand Bharmaev Board, has received thanking him for the action he has taken in raisins a protest' in the mutter. In a letter from the M'ailn Hospital and Charitable Aid Board it stated that at the last meeting Dr Hyde reported that the price of anaesthetics and drugs had gone- up in some cases as high as 1»0 per cent. I he. hoard passed a resolution protesting against the prices being increased before wholesale stocks became exhausted. . , Mr Teed stated that he had received a letter from Mr J. S. Dickson. M-J• for Parnell, stating that everything possible would ho done by the Oovcrniite a P we "do" 1 pot know Hr fifW ,1. tot™ *».. i tion that bromide of potassium, has gone up about 400 per cent, more than ft was a month ago. Of .course there a hi<r rise in the price at Home. IhTt speaking generally, what we comBnt, sp. w > f Ayas no necessity Praise priceTimtii the ?KSC»t Stocks were exhausted-