RESTRICTED USE OF QUININE
SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR FORCES (P.A.) ' WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. In a statement tonight the Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, referred t’o a notice published in this week’s Gazette restricting the use of quinine except as an anti-malarial agent. The Minister stated that similar legislation had been enacted in America and Australia, and it had become necessary to control the distribution of this drug in the Dominion in order that supplies could be conserved for the fighting forces now engaged in malarial countries. Java.from which 90'per cent of the world’s quinine supplies came in the past, was now under the control of the enemy. The Minister added that the importance of - maintaining supplies of quinine could not be overestimated, as although other substitutes were used in the treatment of malaria they were not as efficient as quinine. The quantity of quinine required for armies fighting in tropical countries was very large. The Minister appealed for the cooperation of all persons who hold stocks of quinine and its salts in the complying with the Gazette notice and conserving their stocks for anti-malarial purposes only.
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Southland Times, Issue 24840, 4 September 1942, Page 4
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188RESTRICTED USE OF QUININE Southland Times, Issue 24840, 4 September 1942, Page 4
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