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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Parliament was opened on 24th. August. Among other “bills dealing with sub- 
jects of practical importance and utility’* announced as having been prepared, 
is a bill to regulate the sale and use of poisons. 
Mr. G-eo. Davis has been appointed assistant dispenser at the United 
Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, Launceston. 
Mr. Howard S. J. Drew, of Messrs. Hatton and Laws’ dispensary at West- 
bury, has been granted a dispenser’s license. 
A homceopathist (Dr. M. Wilkins Gutteridge, M.B., C.N., and AI.E.C.S.) 
recently arrived in Launceston from Bradford, England, and will at once com- 
mence business. 
Mr. Alfred Wright, the proprieter of a chemical manure factory at Glenorchy, 
has been fined 40s. and costs, at the instance of the Local Board of Health, for 
permitting a nuisance to exist. The bench announced that should there be subse 
quent convictions, each time the amount will be doubled until it reaches £200.. 
Mr. Wright said he would appeal to the Supreme Court. 
Since last communication to you, a few changes have taken place here. 
Mr. Perry, dispenser to the Hobart Friendly Societies has resigned, and Mr. J. 
J. Ryan has been appointed in his place. At the Launceston Friendly Societies* 
Dispensary, also, Air. Johnson having resigned, Air. C. H. Rawson has been 
appointed dispenser. 
Mr. Spong has sold his business in Brisbane-street, Launceston, to Mr. Cox, 
who was with Alessrs. Hatton and Laws for some years. 
The following persons have been registered by the Board of Aledical 
Examiners as qualified chemists in Tasmania : — Messrs. John M. Reynolds, 
Howard Drew, and Charles Kinch. 
Mr. J. T. Weaver has resigned his position as hon. secretary to the Hobart 
Chemists’ Association, and Air. R. E. Ash has been appointed his successor. 
The Government has introduced into Parliament a bill to regulate the sale 
and use of poisons. It is almost a verbatim copy of the Victorian Poisons Act, 
but has an extra clause, as follows : — “It shall not be lawful to buy or to sell any 
poison for the avowed purpose of destroying rats or other vermin infesting houses 
unless the purchaser be a householder.” The reading of the bill has been post- 
poned, to allow us to consider the various clauses, some of which will probably 
require alteration. 
In reference to the approaching Pharmaceutical Conference to be held in 
Alelbourne in October next, Air. A. P. Aliller — whom we are daily expecting to 
return from his trip to the old country — has been appointed to represent Hobart; 
and as our northern friends will also be represented, let us hope that their 
deliberations will secure for us a better footing with the various Pharmaceutical 
Societies of the colonies. 
At the Hew Zealand Drug Company’s warehouse, Dunedin, on the 8th August, 
a handsome illuminated address was presented to Mr. John Sellgren (who has 
been connected with the firm for the past ten years) on the occasion of his 
leaving for Wellington. Air. J. English on behalf of the employ 6s, expressed 
the regret they felt at his departure, and Air. Kampthorne having referred in 
high terms to Air. Sellgren’s ability, and congratulated him on having secured 
one of the most flourishing retail businesses in the colony, those present drank 
Mr. Sellgren’s health and wished him every success in his new venture. A 
