THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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THE AUSTRALASIAN 
|journal of] ^lltarmacji 
With which is incorporated the Australasian 
Chemist and Druggist. 
Published on the 20 th of each Month. 
This Journal, which is the only organ of 
Pharmacy in the Australasian Colonies, is 
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THE DISCRETIONARY POWERS OF THE PHARMACY 
BOARD. 
Elsewhere we publish a special report of the case of Dimock versus the Pharmacy 
Board of Victoria, which has excited no small degree of interest in pharmaceutical 
circles, and we think our readers will generally agree with us in a feeling of deep 
disappointment that the Chief Justice of Victoria, for whose great learning and 
legal ability no one entertains a higher admiration than ourselves, should consider 
the grave questions involved of such slight importance as to justify him in dealing 
with the case in so summary a manner. This feeling must be further intensified 
when we state that the assumption upon which his Honour justified himself in 
declining to give an interpretation of the disputed section of the Act, viz., that 
Dimock’s was probably the last case which would arise under it, has no foundation 
in fact, and that, as several other aspirants to pharmaceutical honours are known to 
be eagerly awaiting the result of Dimock’s application, the Pharmacy Board will be 
compelled to expend money, which would otherwise be available for the more 
immediate benefit of pharmacy, in applying to the Full Court for the interpretation 
which the Chief Justice has practically refused to render. 
The facts of the case are so clearly stated in our special report that it is 
unnecessary for us to repeat them here, but as some of our readers may not have at 
hand a copy of the Pharmacy Act, it may be advisable to quote at length the sub- 
division of the section under which Mr. Dimock claims registration. It is as 
follows : — 
