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the said Society is duly established from the present date, and is subject to the 
provisions and entitled to the privileges of ‘ The Industrial and Provident Societies Act 
1873.’ Given under my hand this 22nd day of April, 1882. — John Burslem Gregory.” 
And his seal is appended. There is another certificate, both certificates being in the 
form approved by the Act : — “ I, John Burslem Gregory, Registrar of Friendly Societies, 
hereby certify that the Equitable Co-operative Society, Limited, established at Melbourne, 
is registered under ‘ The Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1873.’ ” This is signed 
by Mr. Gregory as Registrar, and sealed with his seal as Registrar. These rules will 
show a previous registered address. Since then they have, in compliance with the Act, 
lodged other rules, also certified to by Mr. Gregory. These are certified to by him as 
Registrar, and sealed by him, and dated the 27th of August, 1885, showing the registered 
address of the Society to be 89 Collins-street East, Melbourne. And I produce the 
Government Gazette, dated 28th April, 1882, with the statutory notice of registration, 
dated the 22nd April, 1882, also under the hand of the Registrar — that is the Government 
Gazette for 1882, page 940. 
Patrick R. Scott, sworn, said : I am a laboratory assistant in the College of 
Pharmacy. I am assistant to Professor Jackson, and I am under the direction of Mr. 
Shillinglaw. I was sent by Mr. Shillinglaw to a medical gentleman to get a prescription. 
I got a prescription. 
Mr. Isaacs: Where is it? 
Witness: This is it. 
(Prescription produced.) 
The Chairman : What was the result ? 
Mr. Isaacs : l T ou got this from Dr. Brown ? 
Witness: Yes. 
Mr. Isaacs : What did you do with it ? 
Witness : I took it to the Equitable Co-operative Society, and got it dispensed. 
Mr. Isaacs : At what address ? 
Witness: 89 Collins-street East. 
Mr. Isaacs : What name did you see over the door ? 
Witness: The Equitable Co-operative Society, Limited. 
Mr. Isaacs : What part of the building did you go into ? 
Witness : The dispensing and patent medicine department. 
Mr. Isaacs : What sort of a room did you go in ? 
Witness : A large room on the ground floor ; right-hand side. 
Mr. Isaacs : Tell us what sort of a room it is. What goods are exposed for sale 
there ? 
Witness : There is the medicine department, ironmongery, and grocery. 
Mr. Isaacs : All — medicine, ironmongery, and grocery — in the one room ? 
Witness: Yes. 
Mr. Isaacs: You had this dispensed? You presented it to someone there behind 
the medicine counter, and got it dispensed? 
Witness: I did. 
Dr. MTnerney : Tell us what you did with it. 
Witness : What, with the medicine ? 
Dr. MTnerney : Did you get a bottle ? 
Witness : I did. 
Dr. MTnerney: Have you got it? 
Witness : Yes. [Bottle produced.] (To Mr. Isaacs) : The medicine produced is a 
portion of the medicine I got. The label now on the bottle was on it when I got it. 
After I got this bottle I kept it under lock and key. I paid for the medicine two 
shillings. I took the bottle of medicine away, and took a portion of the medicine out 
of it and gave it to Professor Jackson to analyse it. I took it out in his presence and 
have kept the other portion in my own possession since. I have had other prescriptions 
dispensed beside that at the same place. I am not a shareholder. I never was. I 
was not asked. 
To Dr. MTnerney: It was about eleven o’clock in the day when I went to the 
Equitable Co-operative Society’s stores. 
To Mr. Isaacs : When I got the prescription, it was returned to me in an envelope. 
[Envelope put in.] There was a counter there, and a man behind it. There was a 
tall man there, that gentleman now in Court. [Pointing to Mr. Goold.] He was the 
gentleman who gave me the prescription. The assistant handed me back the prescription 
in an envelope. I produce the envelope. This is the doctor’s prescription. 
Dr. MTnerney: Do you know what it contains? Could you read it? 
Witness : Yes. 
Dr. MTnerney: I expect you told him you were suffering from a very serious 
complaint. [After examining the prescription and envelope] : I see it purports to be 
made up and dispensed at this Society by James C. Goold, Pharmaceutical Chemist. 
Also on the envelope: “By J. C. Goold, Pharmaceutical Chemist.” 
Mr. Isaacs : If my friend can read, there is something else on it. 
Valentine Brown, sworn, said: I am a legally qualified medical practitioner. I have 
seen the prescription that has been put in evidence. I wrote that. I gave it to the last 
