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youth, as soon as he has passed successfully the prescribed studies, and reached twenty-one years 
of age, can, after he and his master have signed the 7th and 5th schedules of the Act, then go up for 
his final examination. By courtesy, if the Board in any way learns that a pharmacist who is manag- 
ing a dispensary is about taking an apprentice, the attention of that pharmacist is immediately called 
to the above schedules, the Board fearing that unwittingly the words therein of “ open shop” possibly 
may have escaped his attention. Now, whether these schedules should be amended or not is alto- 
gether another question, and one altogether outside of any duties the Board has. The managing 
bodies of these dispensaries assert they should, while I, on public grounds, and with some knowledge 
of the subject, venture to believe and affirm they could not ; for apart from, and outside all special 
prescribed examinations, there is very very much that is essentially necessary to be learnt in the 
routine of an open shop that can neither be taught or learned in a dispensary pure and simple. 
Since writing above, my attention has been attracted to the letter of “ One Who Knows Better.” 
Well, I wish he did, not alone for his own sake, but more for the sake of dispensary apprentices, as 
such knowledge would certainly tend to make him more modest and infinitely less assertive. — 
Yours, (fee., 
HENRY BRIND, 
Member of the Board of Pharmacy. 
THE QUARTERLY EXAMINATIONS OF THE PHARMACY BOARD 
OF VICTORIA. 
The following candidates have passed at the quarterly examinations of the Pharmacy Board: — 
Preliminary Examination, 1st June. 
William James Donegan, Walhalla. 
Ernest Arthur Walton, Fitzroy. 
Henry B. Taylor, Kilmore. 
Seven candidates presented themselves for this examination. 
Materia Medica and Botany, 2nd June. 
Benjamin James Wilkins, Geelong. 
Francis Cathcart, Ballarat. 
George William Towl, Ballarat. 
Elementary and Practical Chemistry, 2nd June. 
William Henry Bateman, Ballarat. 
Alfred George Curthoys, Ballarat. 
Three candidates presented themselves for this examination. 
Modified Examination, 2nd June. 
Edward David Barry, Fitzroy. 
Practical Pharmacy, Major Examination (before the whole Board), 3rd and 4th June. 
John H. Niemann, Sale. 
Samuel Arthur Ewing, Fitzroy. 
Walter Charles Kernot, Geelong. 
Horace Watson, St. Kilda. 
Six candidates presented themselves. 
APPOINTMENT OF THE QUEENSLAND PHARMACY BOARD. 
His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been 
pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be members of the Pharmacy Board of 
•Queensland, for the purposes of “ The Pharmacy Act of 1884 ” : — 
J. Clement Ellison, M.B., 
James Hill, M.D., 
John K. Benson, M.D., 
Edward Taylor, 
C. H. Fletcher Yeo, 
James H. Fitzgibbon, and 
Alfred W. Field. 
A new pharmacy has been opened at Northcote by Mr. F. Eagles. 
Mr. Kempthorne, of the New Zealand Drug Company, has been on a visit to Melbourne. 
Mr. C. R. Blackett has presented to the College of Pharmacy a number of valuable botanical 
plates. 
Mr. D. M. T. Lerew has disposed of his business at Warrnambool to Mr. Frank Uren, late of 
Ballarat. 
