Red Cross Sub-Centre.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1943, Page 2

Red Cross Sub-Centre.

In the report of the Country District's Red Cross Sub-Centre meeting yesterday, the passage relating to Mrs Kemble Welch’s papier mache group should have read: Large numbers of finished articles have been forwarded to Wellington to the Utility of Waste Department for sending overseas. The Junior Red Cross has supplied six parcels of splints and the V.A.D's bowls, trays, etc.

Breaking and Entering Charge. At a special silting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court late yesterday afternoon, before Messrs L. J. Taylor and W. G. Lamb, J’s.P., L. J. Ashwell, aged 21 years, of Dunedin, appeared on a charge of breaking and entering the warehouse of Murdoch’s, Ltd., Dunedin. Ashwell was arrested by Senior-Detec-tive W. Kane in Featherston yesterday, and on the Senior-Detective's, application a remand was granted to Dunedin.

Gifts Acknowledged. The matron of Scdgley Home acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following gifts:—Case of grapefruit, Mrs A. Beetham: cream buns. Anzac Club; cakes, Magnet Bakery. Mesdames L. Moore, G. Moore, D. James, Skeet, Moser, H. Mawlcy, Buddington, G. H. Perry, J. W. Perry. Ranfurly Club, St. Matthew's Scouts, Mr Anstice: sandwiches, Ranl'urly Club, St. Matthew's Scouts, Mr G. H. Markley, M.P., National Party (per .Mrs Betts); overcoat, Mr H. Reid: sheep. Mr Norman Groves, Mr <l. M. Laing: locks, Mr Clegg: eggs. Mr T. A. .Brown: ice cream, Mr H. Reid; timber. Mr r. J. Borthwick; pumpkin, jam and split peas, Mrs S. L. P. Free; parsnips and carrots, Mrs Brockett; doughnuts and bread, American Red Cross: preserved eggs, Mrs G. Williams; rice, cocoa and currants. Miss Valkmce; cricket pants. Mrs T. Anderson: entertainment at pictures, Mr H. Reid.

Repeat Medicines. Amendments to the regulations covering Social Security (pharmaceutical benefits) were gazetted last night. Explaining the amendments, the Minister of Health, Mr Nordmeyer. said that they were issued with the object of discouraging chemists from supplying repeats called for by a medical prescription at the same time as the original medicine was dispensed. “As experience has shown that many repeats are frequently not required by patients, this expensive practice is one that is most undesirable, especially during the present time when drugs are difficult to obtain,” said the Minister. "The amendment provides that repeats may be dispensed at the cost of the Social Security Fund only when it is reasonably assumed that the medicine previously supplied has been exhausted or substantially exhausted. Allowance has been made, however, for exceptional cases, and if, for instance, a person resides at a considerable distance from a chemist’s shop and cannot obtain a repeat when it is required, that person may still obtain all the medicine ordered on a medical prescription with the original supply,”