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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST OF AUSTEALASIA. 
April 1 , 1887 . 
PHARMACY BOARD OF NEW ZEALAND, 1887. 
Grain Agency Buildings, Christchurch. 
President— JOHN V. ROSS, Christchurch. 
Members— GEO. BONNINGTON, Christchurch; EMIL. C. 
SKOG, Christchurch ; CHAS. J. WILSON, Christchurch; 
JAS. ALEX. POND, Auckland; GEO. MEE, Wellington; 
THOS. WILKINSON, Dunedin. 
Registrar— F. S. ANSTED, Christchurch. 
Deputy Registrars — Auckland, H. N. GARLAND; Welling^ton, 
Wm. Hy. BRITTAIN ; Dunedin, R. P. BAGLEY. 
jyi'EETINGS are held on first Friday evening in each month. 
“ITIXAMINATIONS are held on the third Wednesday in April and 
October, at Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, 
provided a sufficient number of candidates make application throughout 
the colony. 
Fee for Examination, i!38s.; payable 30 days prior to Examination 
Fee for Registration, £l Is. , 
C HEMISTS registered in Great Britain, and resident in New Zealand 
are entitled to registration, on application to the Board in proper 
form, accompanied by their certificate of qualification, and the regis- 
tration fee. 
C HANGES OF ADDRESS— By section 15 of “ The Pharmacy Act, | 
every registered Pharmaceutical Chemist on changing his place of 
business is required to intimate the same to the Board 
JOHN VALENTINE ROSS, 
President of the Pharmacy Board of New Zealand, 1887. 
Messrs. Sharland and Co. inform as that Mr. F. Akhurst, 
lately managing for Mr. E. B. Jones, Invercargill, is now with 
Mr. Alexander Eccles, Napier. 
Mr. T. B. Hill, Auckland, has made extensive alterations 
and improvements to his shop. 
Mr. A. J. Bloomfield, of Ponsonby, has also greatly improved 
liis place? of business. 
Mr. Edward C. Collins, for some time managing for Aickin 
& Co., of Napier, is now in Auckland, occupying a similar 
pjosition at Mr. Graves Aickin’s Pharmacy, Queen Street. 
Mr. J. A. Jones, recently arrived from the old country, has 
succeeded Mr. Collins at Napier. 
Mr. Arthur J. Kenderdine, formerly with Mr. John Edson, 
Auckland, has left the district to take a situation with a 
gonthern chemist. 
NEW ZEALAND. 
PHARMACY BOARD OF NEW ZEALAND. 
The members of the newly-appointed Pharmacy Board of 
New Zealand held a preliminary meeting at the Pharmacy of 
Messrs. Cook and Ross, Christchurch, on Feb. 9. 
Mr. J. V. Ross was unanimously elected President. 
Mr. Bonnington proposed that Mr. F. S. Ansted be asked to 
accept the appointment of Registrar, Secretary and Treasurer 
to the Board. The members assenting, the meeting adjourned 
to Feb. 16. 
The adjourned meeting was held at the residence of the 
President. Present — Messrs. Ross, Bonnington, Skog, and 
Wilson. 
Mr. Ansted was appointed Registrar at the usual hono- 
rarium, and conditions of resignation. 
It was resolved to procure suitable office accommodation for 
the Board’s meetings, and for the use of the Registrar. 
A resolution was passed, according a vote of thanks to the 
President, members and registrar of the late Board in Auck- 
land, for the great interest they had shown in their work, and 
for the progress of pharmacy in the colony during their term 
of office. 
Staxdakd Examinations and Examiners. 
Resolved that the pa}3ers for the April Examinations be 
prepared, the examiners being as follows, viz.: — 
Botany and Materia Medica The President 
Pharmacy Mr. E. C. Skog. 
Chemistry Mr. J. A. Pond (Auckland),. 
Correspondence was read from Queensland, asking for re- 
gistration, to which the Registrar was instructed to reply. 
The monthly meeting of the board was held at their office, 
Christchurch, on Friday, March 11. Present ; the President 
(Mr. Ross), Messrs. Bonnington, Skog, and Wilson. 
The minutes of previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
The appointment of deputy registrars was as follows : — Auck- 
land, H. N. Garland ; Wellington, Wm. Hy. Brittain ; Dunedin, 
R. P. Bagiev. Resolved : That the removal of the board’s 
office from Auckland to Christchurch, also the election of 
president, registrar, and deputy registrars, be officially an- 
nounced in the New Zealand Gazette for general information 
of the public. 
Resolved that the following gentlemen be asked to act as 
local examiners* at the April examination ; Auckland, Messrs, 
Pond and Graves Aicken ; Wellington, Wm. H. Brittain and 
Mr. Sellgren ; Dunedin, Messrs. Wilkinson and R. P. Bagley; 
Christchurch, two members of the board. 
Correspondence. — A communication was received from 
Mr. J. Brunte, submitting a Dublin certificate, and claiming 
registration, stating that he was registered in Great Britain, 
The registrar was requested to inform the applicant that the 
Board could only accept the certificate from the Pharmaceuti- 
cal Society of Great Britain, it would therefore be necessary 
to bring forward proof of his registration in Great Britain 
before he could be registered in New Zealand under the pre- 
sent Pliannacy Act. 
Mr. Hay, of Westport, drew the Board’s attention to a 
number of names of deceased chemists still appearing on the 
the register. 
The registrar was requested to communicate with the Regis- 
trar-General, pointing oiu the neglect of the deputy registrars 
of deaths, in not complying with section 15 of Pharmacy Act, 
which makes it imperative upon deputy registrars of deaths 
throughout the colony, on receiving information of the death 
of any pharmaceutical chemist, that he shall forthwith transmit 
notice thereof by post to the president of the jiharmacy board. 
A communication from the Pharmacy Board of Victoria, 
enclosing co\^y of Poison’s Act, Byelaws, and Register for 1887,, 
was received. 
As there was other business the board adjourned to Friday,, 
the 18th inst. 
*Note. — The local examiners are required to witness the 
faithful writing of answers to the questions set, also to report 
upon the work done at the dispensing counter, and transmit 
the answers to the Board. 
