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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA 
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FIGHTING THE STORES. ^ 
The case of Shillinglaw (representing the Pharmacy Board 
of Victoria) v. The Equitable Co-operative Society was heard 
in the Supreme Court on December 7. We give a very full 
report of the argument on another page. It will be interest- 
ing, though we fear not satisfactory, reading for our subscribers. 
It will be remembered that the Pharmacy Act Amendment 
Act, Victoria, 1885, enacted that in all that part of the prin- 
cipal act which imposed penalties for keeping open shop as a 
pharmacist, the word person should be taken to mean corpor- 
ation. Whether the Victorian Parliament quite knew what 
it was doing when it passed this law does not matter. Certain 
it is that it made it illegal for co-operative societies or associ- 
ations of any kind to keep an open shop for the compounding 
and dispensing of poisons. When the case of the Pharmacy 
Board v. The Equitable Co-operative Society came before the 
city magistrates, those gentlemen decided that, as the dis- 
pensing at the stores was under the charge of a legally quali- 
fied dispenser, the public was sufficiently protected. This 
clearly was an incorrect view of the law, and probably if the 
magistrates had taken further time to examine the law, and to 
consider their decision, there would have been no appeal on 
the part of the Board to the Supreme Court. It would have 
been a good thing for chemists if the appeal had been un- 
necessary, and not merely on account of the expense. 
The Supreme Court made it quite clear that it was illegal 
for the Equitable Co-operative Society, or any other society, 
to keep an open shop for the compounding and dispensing of 
medicines. So far nothing could be clearer or more satisfac- 
tory to our readers. 
But, unfortunately, what became equally clear and infinitely 
unsatisfactory, was their opinion that, although the Society 
itself could not keep the necessary open shop, there was 
nothing to prevent them from letting or giving rent free to 
any qualified chemist a portion of their premises in which he 
might carry on business. Of course, if the bona fides of the 
transaction is called in question, it will be for the Society to 
prove that the chemist is the actual proprietor of the business^ 
and that he is free from its control. 
But, apparently, there is nothing to prevent any Co-opera- 
tive Stores from letting a portion of its premises to a phar- 
macist, and fixing the terms upon which business shall be 
done. In some cases this would be agency, and would there- 
fore be illegal ; but there would be no difficulfy in so arrang- 
ing the agreement that the regulation of the terms is a simple 
matter of consideration for value received in place of rent 
&c. That this is not a “ private ” interpretation is shown by 
the following significant advertisement, which has appeared 
in the public journals, and bears the date of the actual trial : — 
E quitable co-operative society limited.— T he 
Supreme Court having decided that the society is incapable o 
carrying on the Pharmacy department, notice is hereby given that 
this department of the society’s business is being TRANSFERRED 
to Mr. J. CROSBIE GOOLD, who, from the commencement, has 
had the entire charge of that department, and who will in future 
carry it on on the same terms as those adopted by the society. 
Dated the seventh day of December, 1886. 
WILLIAM NUITALL, Secretary 
