New Pharmacy For
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Rabaul
THE Drug Houses of New Guinea Ltd. will open a pharmacy in Mango Ave, Rabaul, New Britain, in January. The Company has been formed with local capital.
Mr. John Scott, graduate chemist of Sydney University, who was in Port Moresby, Papua, a short time ago, left Sydney by air on December 9 to manage the new shop.
In addition to retailing the usual medical supplies and plantation requisites, and handling prescrip tions, the company plans to manu facture in Rabaul a number of pharmaceutical and chemical lines.
Distribution will be throughout Papua and New Guinea, British Solomon Islands, and, later, Dutch New Guinea.
Among Rabaul residents in terested in the new concern are Messrs. A. Gow and J. Koefod.
BP Buy Large Lae Motor
Business
THE largest motor service station and workshop in Lae, and probably on the New Guinea mainland —Lae Motors—was taken over by Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd. in December.
Price paid is said to be about £25,000, and the proprietor, Mr.
P’erce Smith, will not have any future interest in it.
This deal gives Burns Philp con trol of big service stations in Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul.
They plan to make their new Lae station into the main automotive distributing centre of the mainland.