Feb. 1, 1887. 
THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST OF AUSTEALASIA. 
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FIGHTING THE STORES. 
On another page we give a special report of the case of 
the Pharmacy Board of Victoria against the Equitable 
Co-operative Society, Collins-street east, Melbourne, as a 
result of which a penalty of 20s. and £2 2s. was inflicted 
on the Co-operative Society. The offence was the carrying 
on the business of a pharmaceutical chemist without being 
duly registered. The Pharmacy Board have carried this 
case through to the end, and are to be congratulated on 
the result. The case was recognised as a test, and at this 
point it will be well to take stock of the advantages gained 
by the litigation. 
In the case of the Equitable Co-operative Society the 
result is a decisive victory to the Pharmacy Board. It will 
be remembered that the Society announced by advertisement 
in December that the pharmaceutical business was being 
transferred to the dispenser, who had conducted the branch 
from the commencement. Apparently the managers and the 
dispenser have been unable to come to terms, for the 
latter has resigned, and the Society will entirely discontinue 
dispensing for the time being. We are now able to wish 
Mr J. C. Goold every prosperity, and trust that this step 
may out the wisest he has ever taken. Those who 
feel least kindly towards him will do well to remember that 
there were over a hundred applications for the post to which 
he was appointed. 
As regards the Federal Co-operative Society, we learn that 
it does not, as we supposed, confine its transactions to its 
own members, but is open to the public. But some weeks 
ago — before the trial in the Supreme Court, we believe — the 
business was definitely sold to the dispenser, who under 
certain conditions carries it on on his own account, but at 
prices agreed upon by himself and the Society. The busi- 
ness is small but growing. 
The Mutual Stores is in a different position, in importance, 
standing, and amount of business done. The manage- 
ment claim that they are not on the same footing as the 
other stores ; they deal only with their members, and are 
more conservative in their methods of business even to 
the avoidance of advertisements. They have been established 
many years, and have endeavoured to comply with the law. 
But the prosecution of the Equitable Society and the way 
inAvhichithas been endeavoured to apply the result to them have 
caused a certain amount of irritation. The action of the 
Pharmacy Board is said to have been a good advertisement^ 
and applications for shares have greatly increased. More- 
over, it is stated that the dispensing business has suddenly 
grown about twenty-five to thirty per cent, as compared 
with last year. The total drug business has also much 
increased ; the returns for the month of December, 1880, were- 
£624, as compared with £530 in December, 1885. .Wecan 
also give the following figures for weeks ending on the- 
dates given in 1885 and 1886 : — December 11, £114, £139 ; 
December 25, £74, £135 ; January 8, £103, £108; January 
15, £128, £160. It is evident that so far the Stores have 
not suffered. The management of the Mutual Stores, how- 
ever, are not at all disposed to follow the example of the 
