THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
449 
JYatarally the Conference, to a great extent, dwarfs by comparison all other 
events of the year, hut a brief allusion to some of these may not be here 
without some interest. 
In Victoria the great success attending the College of Pharmacy under the 
directorate of Mr. A. IT. Jackson has satisfactorily demonstrated the wisdom of 
the choice made on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Council by Professors Attfield 
and Bedwood and Mr. Sydney Plowman, and amply justified the generous 
recognition of the claims of the college afforded by the Government in making 
it an annual grant of £1000. With the beginning of the new year a largely 
reduced scale of fees will be brought into operation, which will have the result 
of rendering it even more popular than it has already become ; while, by the 
division of the year into two sessions, students will be enabled to qualify them- 
selves for examination in six instead of twelve months, as formerly. It is 
doubtful, indeed, if any other country in the world can boast of an educational 
institution superior to that now enjoyed by pharmaceutical and chemical students in 
Victoria, and it may be confidently prophesied that the day is not far distant 
when the College will obtain official recognition not only throughout Australasia, 
but in England, Europe, and the United States of America. 
In another article we refer at some length to a most important decision of 
the Supreme Court, which of itself is sufficient to render the joast year an 
eventful one, and in Victoria, at least, pharmacists have every reason to feel 
satisfied with the protection afforded to them by the law from the unscrupulous 
competition of unqualified tradesmen. 
In New South Wales the efforts made by the Pharmaceutical Society to 
obtain an Act of Incorporation met with a good deal of opposition from various 
quarters, but although counted among the innocents slaughtered at the end of the 
session, there is every hope of the measure being attended with better success 
next year. A Medical Practitioners Bill, introduced by Dr. Tarrant, caused some 
temporary uneasiness, which was allayed by the promise of an amendment to the 
effect that nothing in the bill should be construed to affect or prejudice the rights 
of chemists and druggists. In an unsuccessful effort to get the bill passed before 
the end of the session, Dr. Tarrant appears to have been unable to carry out his 
promise, but in the event of its being again brought forward, the bill will no doubt 
be presented in such a form as will recommend it to the support of the 
pharmaceutical body of that colony. 
In Queensland not only has the Pharmacy Board been brought into active 
operation, but the resuscitation of the Pharmaceutical Society has resulted in 
the establishment of a School of Pharmacy, which gives every promise of developing 
into a highly important and popular institution. 
In South Australia the Pharmaceutical Society, which commenced its first 
financial year the 1st of January last, has displayed great activity in establishing 
itself on a firm basis, and ere long will, no doubt, initiate steps to obtain similar 
legislative protection to that now enjoyed in Victoria. 
In New Zealand, where the Pharmaceutical Society is still unhappily in a 
dormant condition, the vigorous efforts made by the Pharmacy Board to obtain 
amendments of the Pharmacy Act and the Sale of Poisons Act have earned 
them the grateful thanks of their constituents ; while in Tasmania the principal 
event of the year has been the passing of a Poisons Bill, which, generally 
speaking, is a counterpart of that now in force in Victoria. 
In concluding this brief sketch we may be permitted to express our acknow- 
ledgments for the gratifying measure of support, both from subscribers and adver- 
tisers, which has so far rewarded our efforts to render the Journal worthy of its 
recognised position as the organ of Australasian pharmacy. That it has some 
