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Pharmacist at work, 2009

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Pharmacist at work, 2009

Pharmacists dispense prescription medicines and advise customers how to use them properly. Dunedin pharmacist Mike Smith fills a prescription at the Mornington Pharmacy in 2009.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 24 July 2009, p. 17

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Pauline Norris and Rosemary Beresford, Medicines and remedies – Plant extracts to modern drugs, 1900 to 1930s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28225/pharmacist-at-work-2009 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Pauline Norris and Rosemary Beresford, published 22 March 2011, updated 1 April 2020.