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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
BOARD OF PHARMACY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Constituted under the Sale and Utte of Poi>ionH Act, 10 Vie., No. 9 {1G76). 
President— C.McKAY, M.D., and L.R.C.S., Edin. (President of 
the New South Wales Medical Board] ; H. H. MACLAURIN, 
M.D. (Medical Adviser to the Government) ; H. W. SADLER, 
JAS. MAYNE, BOZON F. BOZON, WILLIAM HENRY 
McCarthy, t. b. melhuish.edwardthornton, 
and JOHN S. ABRAHAMS (members of the Council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales) Secretary and 
Registrar— WILLIAM TOWNLEY PINHEY, J.P. 
rpHE BOARD meets on the first Tuesday of each month, at twelve 
o'clock, a.m. 
/^PPICE HOURS — Prom eleven o'clock to one o’clock every Tuesday 
and Thursday. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Established — June, 1876. 
President— H. W. SADLER. Council : BOZON F. BOZON, 
JAMES MAYNE, WILLIAM HENRY McCARTHY, 
JOHN S. ABRAHAMS, and EDWARD THORNTON 
T. B. MELHUISH. Secretary, W. T. PINHEY, J.P. 
rj^HE COUNCIL meets on the first Tuesday in each month, at eleven 
o’clock, a.m. 
Board of Examiners— BOZON F. BOZON, Pharmacy and Prac- 
tical Dispensing; JAMES MAYNE, Botany and Chemistry ; 
T. B. MELHUISH, Materia Medica and Prescriptions. 
Preliminary Examination— Examiner, BOZON F. BOZON. 
/^PPICE HOURS — From eleven o'clock to one o’clock every Tuesday 
and Thursday. 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
PHAEMACY EOAED OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
(Official Report.) 
The usual monthly meeting of the Board took place on 
Tuesday, March 1, the following members being present, viz.: 
—Dr. MTvay (the President) in the chair, Messrs. Abraham, 
Sadler, Melhuish, Mayne, and McCarthy. 
The Secretary and Eegistrar (Mr. Pinhey) was also in at- 
tendance. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Applic.\tioxs for Certificates; 
The following applications for certificates under the Sale 
and Use of Poisons Act, 40, Victoria, No. 9, were dealt 
with : — 
Kichard England Young. On re-consideration granted for 
twelve months. 
D. B. Lindsay, of Albury. Postponed for a month. 
E. E. Whitycombe, storekeeper. Kangaroo Valley. Granted 
for twelve months. 
E. Vauzetti, Forbes. Granted subject to production of dip- 
loma. 
W. Blunden, Sydney. Refused. 
Edward S. Gain, Silverton. Applicant to pass the usual 
examination. 
Caleb Soul and AVashington Soul, Sydney. The applicants 
to be required to produce a statutory declaration that they 
were carrying on the business of chemists and druggists before 
the passing of the Poisons Act. 
A Storekeeper’s Certificate. 
The matter of the certificate granted to David Turner Pear- 
son, storekeeper, of Uralla, was also considered ; a statement 
having been forwarded to the Board that a legally qualified 
chemist and druggist had lately opened a shop in the town- 
ship of Uralla. The Board decided to allow the certificate in 
question to expire, such certificate not to be renewed if a 
licensed chemist and druggist should be in business in the 
township of Uralla. 
Deputation to the TpiEAsurer. 
The Secretary informed the Board that he had written to 
the Colonial Treasure!’, requesting him to appoint a day and 
time to receive a deputation from the Board Avith reference to 
the disposal of the fees received under the Sale and Use of 
Poisons Act, and also to ask that an annual sum of £200 might 
be granted to the Board of Pharmacy, in order to enable them 
to assist the Pharmaceutical Society in carrying on their edu- 
cational work. Mr. Pinhey also read a prdc/j? of the grounds 
upon Avhich it is intended to ai^proach the Colonial Treasurer, 
these being substantially the same as appeared in The. Chemist 
and Drnpfiist of Australasia last month. The Board api^roved 
of the Secretary’s minutes. 
This concluded the business. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF NEAV SOUTH 
WALES. 
(Official Report.) 
The usual monthly meeting of the Council Avas held on 
Tuesday, March 1, the President (Mr. H. W. Sadler) in the- 
chair. There Avere also present — Messrs. McCarthy, Mel- 
huish, Mayne, Abraham, and the Secretary, Mr. W. T. 
Pinhey. 
The minutes of the last meeting Avere read and confirmed. 
Bye-laavs. 
The folloAving motion, of Avhich notice Avas given at the last 
meeting by Mr. Mayne, came on for discussion “ That the 
bye-laAA's passed and confirmed at a special meeting of the 
Council of this Society, held on February 26, 1885, be noAV 
adopted and printed, and Avilh them a complete list of the 
members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ngav South AVales 
up to date.” The matter Avas adjourned one month. 
Applications for Membership. 
The application of J. Layhourne Smith, Broken Hill, 
N.S.W., for membership, on the ground of his being an 
associate of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and 
a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Australia, 
Avas granted subject to the iDroduction of the necessary certifi- 
cates. 
The application of J. C. Gillott, Deniliquin, to be examined 
under the old synopsis, on the ground of his having been in- 
dentured and registered before the iieAv synopsis came into 
force, AA’as refused. 
Deputation to the Minister of Public Instruction. 
The Secretary informed the members that he had commu- 
nicated Avith the hon. the Minister for Public Instruction re- 
questing that he Avould receive a deputation from the Society 
on such a day as might he most convenient, and had been in- 
formed in reply that the Minister Avould receive the deputa- 
tien on Friday, March 4, at 11 o’clock a.m. The objects of 
such deputation Avere to ask the Minister to facilitate, as far 
as lay in his poA\*er, the passing of the Society’s Act of Incor- 
poration ; and also to make application for the £1 subsidy for 
every £2 subscribed by members, on the ground that the 
Society’s funds Avere in a very large measure deA^oted to edu- 
cational purposes, and that, therefore, it Avas only fitting that 
the Society should receive such assistance from the Govern- 
ment out of the large sum annually voted for similar pur- 
poses. 
It Avas decided that a deputation should Avait upon the 
Minister at the time appointed. 
[The deputation waited on the Minister on March 4, as 
reported on page 80, on a subsequent date the folloAving reply 
AA'as received from the Department : — 
“ Department of Public Instruction, 
Sydney, 15th March, 1887. 
Sir, — Referring to the deputation from the Pharmaceutical 
Society, Avhich AA'aited on tlie Minister of Public Instruction on 
the 4th inst., I am directed to acquaint you that, in accord- 
ance Avith his promise, Mr. Inglis took the earliest opportu- 
nity of submitting to the Cabinet the subject brought under 
notice by the deputation. 
After careful consideration of the matter, it Avas the opinion 
of the Cabinet that, as the Estimates-in-Chief have been 
closed, and having regard to the imperative necessity for the 
